SELECT N rows before and after the row matching the condition?

Question

The behaviour I want to replicate is like grep with -A and -B flags . eg grep -A 2 -B 2 \"hello\" myfile.txt will give me all the lines wh

Answer 1

Right, this works for me:

SELECT child.*
FROM stack as child,
(SELECT idstack FROM stack WHERE message LIKE '%hello%') as parent
WHERE child.idstack BETWEEN parent.idstack-2 AND parent.idstack+2;