That's so rediculously simple it hurts...I'm an idiot...Thank you VERY much.
Joe
Martijn van Oosterhout wrote:
>
> On Wed, Dec 19, 2001 at 08:13:50AM -0600, Joe Koenig wrote:
> > This is exactly right. The table I'm searching has 220,000 records right
> > now, and growing. The "Rock" category within "CD's" will return over
> > 53,000 results. The count isn't so much for display, as for knowing
> > whether or not to put a "next" button on the page. I don't want to
> > always have next buttons, but not always have more results. There is
> > currently the option to browse through results based on the first letter
> > of the result, which I guess I could make as the 3rd step and not run
> > the query that currently returns 53,000 results until they narrow it
> > down more. I wasn't really expecting this to be possible, but PG does so
> > many other things that I didn't think was possible, so I thought I'd ask :)
>
> But that's easy. Simply ask the database for one more record that you're
> going to display. If you get that extra record, then display the next
> button, otherwise don't. The count is irrelevent.
>
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