On 11/15/07, Abraham, Danny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> With Oracle we do it with: delete ,tname>   where  <cond> and rownum < Y;

You could create a temporary sequence:

  create temporary sequence foo_seq;
  delete from foos where nextval('foo_seq') < 50000;

I'm not sure how fast nextval() is, even on temporary sequences; but
it should be reasonably fast.

If it's a FIFO queue, the table surely has some explicit order through
a column which you will need as part of the query?

Alexander.

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