Re: [BUGS] Status of issue 4593 - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Jeff Davis
Subject Re: [BUGS] Status of issue 4593
Date
Msg-id 1231782061.3898.13.camel@jdavis
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In response to Re: [BUGS] Status of issue 4593  (Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>)
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On Mon, 2009-01-12 at 15:26 +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> 1) We document bluntly that ORDER BY + FOR UPDATE can return unordered 
> results, or
> 
> 2) We prohibit ORDER BY + FOR UPDATE, like we do with a number of other 
> clauses.  (There would be no loss of functionality, because you can run 
> the query a second time in the transaction with ORDER BY.)
> 

I like Lee's idea of a WARNING plus a documentation note -- seems like a
reasonable compromise. Maybe we can add the prohibition later if we
still don't have a fix for it.

Regards,Jeff Davis



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