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From: Another Trad <anothertrad@gmail.com>
To: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: LIMIT BASED ON PERCENT
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2009 16:12:31 -0300
Message-ID: <af7271950911181112h574da17euf94d9640ec7680df@mail.gmail.com> (raw)

My question is quite simple: I want to select all the records from my table,
but I want apply a LIMIT of 20% in the lines. like:
select * from client limit 20%
I have tried (of course, with no success) this:
select * from client limit ((select count(*) from client)*20/100)

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