Re: partial resultset in java

In article <b80d582c0603212153p654d0f06t4ddfec76ada2bfce@mail.gmail.com>,
Luckys <plpgsql@gmail.com> writes:

> I believe you should restrict number of rows that needs to be returned, or
> giving a choice to the user, although showing the total count. Even if you
> display all 20K records, no one is going to see them all,  you can even add
> one more LIKE condition to match the user's criteria.

I second that.  Whenever you connect an interactive application to a
DB backend and you don't know in advance some upper limit for the
number of rows returned by a query, append a "LIMIT 1000" or something
like that.