If limit didn't mean "get first 50," there would be no time/effort
saved by specifying a limit.
I.e. when a limit is specified, the backend looks for matches until it
finds 50 records, and then stops.
Troy
>
> On Fri, 29 Oct 1999, Oleg Bartunov wrote:
>
> > select * from table order by column limit 50
> >
>
> It used to be and could still be in Oracle (sorry to pull them into this)
> that limit applied to the selection clause so the first 'n' tulples
> selected,not the top/bottom 'n', would be reported.
> Would this be a feature of the SQL standard or of Oracles
> implementation? And how does PostgreSQL handle limits?
>
> Rod
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