Received: from mbox.ualr.edu (mbox.ualr.edu [144.167.10.38]) by hub.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id DAA11796 for ; Tue, 30 Nov 1999 03:25:32 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from safilippov@ualr.edu) Received: from athena.ualr.edu by UALR.EDU (PMDF V5.1-12 #24705) with SMTP id <01JIXKNC824000HG96@UALR.EDU> for pgsql-interfaces@postgresql.org; Tue, 30 Nov 1999 02:25:27 CDT Received: from Integrity ([144.167.7.36]) by athena.ualr.edu with SMTP for pgsql-interfaces@postgresql.org; Tue, 30 Nov 1999 02:25:26 -0600 Date: Tue, 30 Nov 1999 02:27:59 -0600 From: "Stanislav A. Filippov" Subject: last record selection X-Sender: safilippov@athena.ualr.edu (Unverified) To: pgsql-interfaces@postgresql.org Message-id: <4.1.19991130022532.00a01390@athena.ualr.edu> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.1 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Can anyone tell me if there is a direct way to SELECT the last record in the table, without selecting the whole table and retrieving all rows. thanx