Steve Atkins wrote:
As long as you're ordering by some row in the table then you can do that in
straight SQL.
select a, b, ts from foo where (stuff) and foo > X order by foo limit 10
Then, record the last value of foo you read, and plug it in as X the next
time around.
We've been over this before in this forum: It doesn't work as advertised. Look for postings by me regarding the fact that there is no way to tell the optimizer the cost of executing a function. There's one, for example, on Oct 18, 2006.
I think the problem is more that most web developers aren't very good
at using the database, and tend to fall back on simplistic, wrong,
approaches
to displaying the data. There's a lot of monkey-see, monkey-do in web
UI design too, which doesn't help.
Thanks, I'm sure your thoughtful comments will help me solve my problem. Somehow. ;-)
Craig
