Re: To Postgres Devs : Wouldn't changing the select limit - Mailing list pgsql-general

> Bruce Momjian writes:
>
> > > Break the SQL code that has been implemented for prior versions??
> > >  Bummer ;((.
> >
> > Yes, but we don't follow the MySQL behavior, which we copied when we
> > added LIMIT.  Seems we should agree with their implementation.
>
> Isn't it much worse to not follow PostgreSQL behavior than to not follow
> MySQL behavior?

Another idea:  because our historical Limit #,# differs from MySQL, one
idea is to disable LIMIT #,# completely and instead print an error
stating they have to use LIMIT # OFFSET #.  Although that would break
both MySQl and old PostgreSQL queries, it would not generate incorrect
results.

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