[Zope-DB] Z SQL equivelant of MySQL's SQL_CALC_FOUND_ROWS?

[Chris Withers]

Charlie Clark wrote:
>>That doesn't work if you use offsets and limits to only return part of a
>>result set...
> 
> SELECT count(attribute) FROM relatiin WHERE condition

Ah, okay, now I gotcha...

> only returns 1 result so it's independent of LIMIT and result sets.

I wonder how the two methods compare efficiency-wise?

> Of course, ZopeDAs such as our mxODBCZopeDA can be extended to support 
> additional commands on the connection but that is not part of the ZSQL 
> specification and will vary from RDBMS to RDBMS as the initial mail noted.

Well, that's why MySQL does it as an SQL statement, no? ;-)

Chris

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