Re: get certain # of recs

Take a look at the LIMIT part of the SELECT statement.  in your case you'd
do:

select  * from tablename limit 21;

ALthough you'll want to use an ORDER BY otherwise you could get different
results each time..

-philip

On Thu, 13 Sep 2001, Mike S. Nowostawsky wrote:

> How can one select only a certain number of records in Postgres?
>
> In other SQL langs we can use, say, for the first 20 recs:
>
> select  * from tablename where rownum < 21;
>
> WHAT should 'rownum' be to make this select work... OR is there a diff
> syntax?
>
> Thx,
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