"Rainer Bauer" <usenet@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Anyway, what Phoenix is trying to say is that 2 queries are required: One to > get the total count and one to get the tuples for the current page. I reckon > it would help, if the query returning the result set could also report the > total no. of tuples found. Somthing like > SELECT COUNT(*), * FROM <table> WHERE <cond> OFFSET <o> LIMIT <l> > > Or is there a way to do that? Well anything like the above would just report l as the count. The only way to do it in Postgres currently is to create a temporary table. Then you can populate it once, then select the count from the temporary table in one query and the required page from it in the second query. But temporary tables in Postgres are not really designed for this. In particular they count as DDL so you have to grant privileges to create tables to the application and it has to create and delete entries in pg_class for every use. -- Gregory Stark EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly
