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From: Bruce Momjian <[email protected]>
To: Jaime Casanova <[email protected]>
Cc: pgsql-docs <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: incorrect syntax for offset
Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2010 17:47:48 -0500 (EST)
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>

Jaime Casanova wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> Our current docs says that we support the following syntax (i'm
> putting just the lines that disturbes me) inside a SELECT statement
> """
> [ LIMIT { count | ALL } ]
> [ OFFSET start [ ROW | ROWS ] ]
> [ FETCH { FIRST | NEXT } [ count ] { ROW | ROWS } ONLY ]
> """
> 
> i read that as allow me to use the ROWS in an OFFSET clause whatever i
> use LIMIT or FETCH for limiting results but seems like we try hard to
> make a distinguish from old syntax and new (sql standard) syntax
> 
> pruebas=# select * from tab1 limit 3 offset 2 rows;
> ERROR:  syntax error at or near "rows"
> LINE 1: select * from tab1 limit 3 offset 2 rows;
>                                             ^
> pruebas=# select * from tab1 offset 2 fetch next 3 rows only;
> ERROR:  syntax error at or near "fetch"
> LINE 1: select * from tab1 offset 2 fetch next 3 rows only;

FYI, this is fixed in 9.0:

	test=> select * from tab1 limit 3 offset 2 rows;
	 x
	---
	(0 rows)

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