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@ 2005-06-27 15:34 Markus Bertheau ☭ <twanger@bluetwanger.de>
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From: Markus Bertheau ☭ @ 2005-06-27 15:34 UTC (permalink / raw)
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Hi,
is there a reason that
SELECT * FROM t1 OFFSET -1 LIMIT 1
does not return 0 rows? Accordingly
SELECT * FROM t1 OFFSET -1 LIMIT 2
should return 1 row, imo.
Markus
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* Re: SELECT * FROM foo OFFSET -1 LIMIT 1
@ 2005-06-27 17:17 Martín Marqués <martin@bugs.unl.edu.ar>
parent: Markus Bertheau ☭ <twanger@bluetwanger.de>
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From: Martín Marqués @ 2005-06-27 17:17 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Markus Bertheau ☭ <twanger@bluetwanger.de>; +Cc: pgsql-sql
El Lun 27 Jun 2005 12:34, Markus Bertheau ☭ escribió:
> Hi,
>
> is there a reason that
>
> SELECT * FROM t1 OFFSET -1 LIMIT 1
>
> does not return 0 rows? Accordingly
>
> SELECT * FROM t1 OFFSET -1 LIMIT 2
>
> should return 1 row, imo.
From the docs:
The LIMIT clause consists of two independent sub-clauses:
LIMIT { count | ALL }
OFFSET start
count specifies the maximum number of rows to return, while start specifies
the number of rows to skip before starting to return rows. When both are
specified, start rows are skipped before starting to count the count rows to
be returned.
How do you skip -1 rows?
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* Re: SELECT * FROM foo OFFSET -1 LIMIT 1
@ 2005-06-27 18:41 Markus Bertheau <twanger@bluetwanger.de>
parent: Martín Marqués <martin@bugs.unl.edu.ar>
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From: Markus Bertheau @ 2005-06-27 18:41 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Martín Marqués <martin@bugs.unl.edu.ar>; +Cc: pgsql-sql
Dnia 27-06-2005, Mo o godzinie 14:17 -0300, Martín Marqués napisał(a):
> How do you skip -1 rows?
You redefine OFFSET to mean "where in the result set to start returning
rows" and give -1 the meaning that I described above.
Please don't ask me, where in the result set position -1 is.
I've stumbled over this because I needed a query which given an id a
result set like this:
id txt pos
23 foo 0
11 bar 1
34 baz 2
13 xop 3
returns the previous and next rows relative to the given id, as ordered
by the position). That would be 23 and 34 for 11, or NULL and 11 for 23.
I'm basically determining the position of the middle row and then
querying with offset pos-1 limit 1 and offset pos+1 limit 1.
Offset for negative numbers means 0, as it seems. I think there is a
sensible meaning for negative offset numbers and wondered, what
arguments led to negative offsets being processed as 0 offset.
Markus
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* Re: SELECT * FROM foo OFFSET -1 LIMIT 1
@ 2005-06-27 19:35 Greg Stark <gsstark@mit.edu>
parent: Markus Bertheau <twanger@bluetwanger.de>
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From: Greg Stark @ 2005-06-27 19:35 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Markus Bertheau <twanger@bluetwanger.de>; +Cc: Martín Marqués <martin@bugs.unl.edu.ar>; pgsql-sql
Markus Bertheau <twanger@bluetwanger.de> writes:
> Offset for negative numbers means 0, as it seems. I think there is a
> sensible meaning for negative offset numbers and wondered, what
> arguments led to negative offsets being processed as 0 offset.
Frankly I'm surprised it's not a syntax error.
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