Martijn van Oosterhout wrote:
>On Thu, Aug 16, 2007 at 01:09:32PM +0200, Rainer Bauer wrote:
>> 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>
>
>Well, thee is another possibility, use cursors:
>
>DECLARE CURSOR ... AS <query>;
>FETCH 30 -- or however many to want now
>MOVE TO END -- or whatever the command is, this gives you the number of rows
>
>Hope this helps,
Thanks! I will give this a try.
Rainer