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Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2006 13:03:44 -0700
From: Michael Fuhr <mike@fuhr.org>
To: Kashyap Jani <kjani@cognitronics.com>
Cc: pgsql-interfaces <pgsql-interfaces@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: Getting data where select has a limit criteria
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On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 10:48:08AM -0500, Kashyap Jani wrote:
>    I am trying to issue a query like "SELECT * from <some table> limit 
> 30". In psql command line interface it displays only 30 rows at a time. 

With LIMIT 30 psql should display only 30 rows altogether ("30 rows
at a time" suggests that you're getting more than 30 rows -- are
you?).

> How will it behave if I use libpq. Is it going to return me only 30 rows ?

If you put LIMIT 30 in the query then you should get at most 30
rows.  What happened when you tried it?

-- 
Michael Fuhr