How to limit rows in PostgreSQL SELECT

Question

What\'s the equivalent to SQL Server\'s TOP or DB2\'s FETCH FIRST or mySQL\'s LIMIT in PostgreSQL?

Answer 1

You could always add the OFFSET clause along with LIMIT clause.

You may need to pick up a set of records from a particular offset. Here is an example which picks up 3 records starting from 3rd position:

testdb=# SELECT * FROM COMPANY LIMIT 3 OFFSET 2;

This would produce the following result:

 id | name  | age | address   | salary
----+-------+-----+-----------+--------
  3 | Teddy |  23 | Norway    |  20000
  4 | Mark  |  25 | Rich-Mond |  65000
  5 | David |  27 | Texas     |  85000

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