get certain # of recs

How can one select only a certain number of records in Postgres?

In other SQL langs we can use, say, for the first 20 recs:

select  * from tablename where rownum < 21;

WHAT should 'rownum' be to make this select work... OR is there a diff
syntax?

Thx,
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