Re: get certain # of recs

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?

select * from tablename LIMIT 20;