On 2024-May-16, Japin Li wrote:
> I find that the FETCH FIRST ... ROWS WITH TIES does not support type casting.
> For example:
>
> postgres=# SELECT * FROM pg_class ORDER BY relname FETCH FIRST 2::bigint ROWS WITH TIES;
> ERROR: syntax error at or near "::"
> LINE 1: ...ECT * FROM pg_class ORDER BY relname FETCH FIRST 2::bigint R...
> ^
Why do you need this? The standard says
<fetch first clause> ::= FETCH { FIRST | NEXT } [ <fetch first quantity> ] { ROW | ROWS } { ONLY | WITH TIES }
<fetch first quantity> ::= <fetch first row count> | <fetch first percentage>
<offset row count> ::= <simple value specification>
<fetch first row count> ::= <simple value specification>
which doesn't seem to leave room for a cast.
I didn't try super extensively, but this works:
select 1 from pg_class fetch first 281474976710656 rows only;
so the count is already not restricted to be an int32 value.
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