mnesia query

[Sebastian Bello]

Hi all,

imagine I have a query which returns a very big number of records, but am interested in just a fixed small number of them. Is there a way to retrieve, let's say, just the first N or just N of them? Not doing, ie getting the whole result, implies a performance penalty other than memory consumption?
Thanks,
    Sebastian-
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