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* Dynamic Offset Determination
@ 2005-07-13 15:28  David Blankley <david@blankley.com>
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From: David Blankley @ 2005-07-13 15:28 UTC (permalink / raw)
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Problem Statement:
I want to return n rows from a table.
These n rows are relative to an offset.

The part I can't figure out:
The offset needs to be determined from values in the rows.

Example:
Given a table foo:
CriteriaCol 	integer
OrderedCol	integer

I can figure out the number of rows
SELECT COUNT(CriteriaCol) FROM foo;

How do I determine the offset?
SELECT {rownum?} FROM foo WHERE CriteriaCol = SomeValidValue;

With the rownum I can then determine the rows I want.
SELECT * FROM foo ORDER BY OrderedCol LIMIT 21 OFFSET (rownum-10);

Don't worry about boundary conditions, functions, etc, I can sort that out
once I know how to get the offset.
--------------------------

Searching the forums, the one potential hack I've found is:
Quote from: http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-sql/2003-04/msg00287.php
create temp sequence foo;
	select nextval('foo'), * from
	(select ... whatever ... order by something) ss;
drop sequence foo;

Presumably I would get my ordinal value from the sequence before dropping
it.

This seems like it would be a potentially slow process.  Also, this
solution dates to 2003, so I thought it worth asking in case a better
solution has come along.

Thanks for suggestions/solutions
Dave




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* Re: Dynamic Offset Determination
@ 2005-07-13 16:06  David Blankley <david@blankley.com>
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From: David Blankley @ 2005-07-13 16:06 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: pgsql-sql

I came up with a clever solution to this myself...
I know the determined value for my CriteriaCol, so I can simply get the
count of all the rows with criteria <= my value...

SELECT count(*) FROM foo WHERE CriteriaCol<=constraint ORDER BY OrderCol;

Thanks,
Dave


-----------------------------------
Problem Statement:
I want to return n rows from a table.
These n rows are relative to an offset.

The part I can't figure out:
The offset needs to be determined from values in the rows.

Example:
Given a table foo:
CriteriaCol 	integer
OrderedCol	integer

I can figure out the number of rows
SELECT COUNT(CriteriaCol) FROM foo;

How do I determine the offset?
SELECT {rownum?} FROM foo WHERE CriteriaCol = SomeValidValue;

With the rownum I can then determine the rows I want.
SELECT * FROM foo ORDER BY OrderedCol LIMIT 21 OFFSET (rownum-10);

Don't worry about boundary conditions, functions, etc, I can sort that out
once I know how to get the offset.
--------------------------

Searching the forums, the one potential hack I've found is:
Quote from: http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-sql/2003-04/msg00287.php
create temp sequence foo;
	select nextval('foo'), * from
	(select ... whatever ... order by something) ss;
drop sequence foo;

Presumably I would get my ordinal value from the sequence before dropping
it.

This seems like it would be a potentially slow process.  Also, this
solution dates to 2003, so I thought it worth asking in case a better
solution has come along.

Thanks for suggestions/solutions
Dave





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