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From: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
To: Wei Weng <wweng@kencast.com>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Which one is faster?
Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2002 16:34:49 -0400 (EDT)
Message-ID: <200206192034.g5JKYn616099@candle.pha.pa.us> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1024514821.20296.5.camel@Monet>

Wei Weng wrote:
> Between Using Limit P, S or using a cursor to start from FETCH ABSOLUTE
> S and FETCH NEXT for P times, which one is faster?

LIMIT is faster because it doesn't need to generate all the result, in
some cases.

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