On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 11:07:31 +0530, soni de <soni.de@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Please provide me some help regarding how could I use cursor in following > cases? : > > I want to fetch 50 records at a time starting from largest stime. > > SELECT * FROM wan ORDER BY stime LIMIT 50 OFFSET 81900; Something like the following may be faster: SELECT * FROM wan ORDER BY stime DESC LIMIT 50;