Ragnar =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Hafsta=F0?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> you might reduce the performance loss if your dataset is ordered by
> a UNIQUE index.
> select * from mytable where somecondition
> ORDER by uniquecol limit 50;
> and next:
> select * from mytable where somecondition AND uniquecol>?
> ORDER by uniquecol limit 50 OFFSET 50;
> where the ? is placeholder for last value returned by last query.
Uh, you don't want the OFFSET there do you? But otherwise, yeah,
this is a popular solution for paging through some rows. Doesn't really
help with the problem of counting the total dataset though ...
regards, tom lane
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