Re: LIMIT 1 FOR UPDATE or FOR UPDATE LIMIT 1? - Mailing list pgsql-sql

OK, no one has commented on this, so I guess I am going to have to guess
the group's preference.

My guess, seeing as very few probably use LIMIT and FOR UPDATE together,
is to swap them and document it in the release notes.  Was I correct in
my guess?

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Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Magnus Enbom wrote:
> > On Mon, Aug 26, 2002 at 02:42:26PM -0400, Jan Wieck wrote:
> > > Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > I found this email from April.  It properly points out that our
> > > > LIMIT/FOR UPDATE ordering doesn't match MySQL's, and MySQL's looks more
> > > > correct, specifically that the FOR UPDATE is after the LIMIT.  Our
> > > > grammar is:
> > > 
> > > How do you define "correct" for "non-standard" features? And why don't
> > > you ask Monty first to change to our "de-facto-standard"? ;-)
> > 
> > Already done that. ;-)
> > He said he would look into it(having MySQL accept both behaviors), but if 
> > it would require a big change of their grammar(for a value of big), he'd rather
> > not. He also pointed out(as Bruce and Tom have done) that our(PG) way is 
> > kind of backwards. 
> > If you look at Oracle, you can see that they also have it last:
> > 
> > select :== subquery -> for_update_clause ;
> > 
> > OTOH, Oracle doesn't have LIMIT, but that's another story...
> > 
> 
> Yep, we clearly have it backwards.  Now, how to address it:
> 
>     1) leave it unchanged
>     2) allow only new ordering
>     3) allow both orderings for one release
>     4) allow both ordering forever
>     
> 
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