substring and a join?

["Lauri Vain" <optima@xxxxxx>]

Hello,

I have the following query:
"SELECT thara_plane.id,thara_plane.nam
e,thara_plane.nick,thara_plane.bodytext,thara_category.category "
   ."FROM thara_plane,thara_category,substring(thara_plane.bodytext,225) as
bodytext "
   ."WHERE ((thara_plane.category = thara_category.id)) "
   ."ORDER BY thara_plane.time_last DESC";

I need to select the first 255 chars from the field "thara_plane.bodytext". The
previous query, however, doesn't work. I have tried it several ways, changine
one row and another but I haven't yet found a solution that works. Any ideas?

Yours,
Lauri


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