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From: David Fetter <david@fetter.org>
To: Andrew Gierth <andrew@tao11.riddles.org.uk>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Vik Fearing <vik.fearing@2ndquadrant.com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Fix for FETCH FIRST syntax problems
Date: Sun, 20 May 2018 21:26:50 +0200
Message-ID: <20180520192649.GA20752@fetter.org> (raw)
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On Sun, May 20, 2018 at 01:39:27AM +0100, Andrew Gierth wrote:
> >>>>> "Tom" == Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> writes:
> 
>  >> I'm +1 for backpatching it. It may be operating as designed by
>  >> PeterE ten years ago, but it's not operating as designed by the SQL
>  >> standard.
> 
>  Tom> By that argument, *anyplace* where we're missing a SQL-spec
>  Tom> feature is a back-patchable bug. I don't buy it.
> 
> But this is a feature we already claimed to actually support (it's
> listed in sql_features with a bunch of unqualified YES entries), but in
> fact doesn't work properly.

This looks like a bug fix to me, for what it's worth.

Best,
David.
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