On Wed, 6 Aug 2003, Andreas Schmitz wrote:
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> Hello *,
>
> I am just wondering if it is possible to use cursors within PHP. I need to
> page query result from a big table and I am looking for a solution to avoid
> scanning the complete table using limit and offset.
Yes, you can use cursors, no you can't expect them to survive from one
page to the next.
Luckily, Postgresql is smart enough to use indexes when you use offset
limit, but, of course, it must internally create the result set up to and
including the last row returned by the limit / offset.