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To: [email protected]
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Subject: Re: Documentation bug report for LIMIT
Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2002 10:55:43 -0500 (EST)
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>
Interesting you picked that up. The comma for LIMIT was supported in
7.2.X only for backward compatibility, and was mentioned in the release
notes. It is _not_ supported in 7.3 anymore, where the separate
LIMIT/OFFSET clauses are the only supported syntax.
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Jean-Christian Imbeault wrote:
> In
> http://www6.jp.postgresql.org/users-lounge/docs/7.2/postgres/queries-limit.html
>
> it is stated that the syntax is:
>
> SELECT select_list
> FROM table_expression
> [LIMIT { number | ALL }] [OFFSET number]
>
> This following query is valid even though the syntax is wrong:
>
> select id from members order by id limit 5, 6
>
> If this "alternative" syntax is acceptable could you add this
> alternative syntax to the docs? Else, the parser needs to throw an error?
>
> SELECT select_list
> FROM table_expression
> [LIMIT { number | ALL }] [, [OFFSET] number]
>
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