On Tue, May 16, 2006 at 07:20:12PM -0700, Craig A. James wrote: > >Why I want to use offset and limit is for me to create a threaded > >application so that they will not get the same results. > > In order to return rows 10000 to 15000, it must select all rows from zero > to 15000 and then discard the first 10000 -- probably not what you were > hoping for. > > You might add a "thread" column. Say you want to run ten threads: Another possibility is partitioning the table. If you do that using inheritance-based partitioning, you could just select directly from different partition tables, which probably be even faster than using a single table. The downside is it's more work to setup. -- Jim C. Nasby, Sr. Engineering Consultant jnasby@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Pervasive Software http://pervasive.com work: 512-231-6117 vcard: http://jim.nasby.net/pervasive.vcf cell: 512-569-9461
