offset and limit in update and subselect - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Timothy H. Keitt
Subject offset and limit in update and subselect
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Msg-id 3A9814B1.1040804@SUNYSB.Edu
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Responses Re: offset and limit in update and subselect  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Hi,

It appears that limit and offset do not work in a subselect such as:
update my_table set my_col = new_val where oid = (select oid from 
my_table offset row_number limit 1);

Basically, I need to update rows by offset from the beginning of the 
table.  Even nicer would be
update my_table set my_col = new_val offset row_number limit 1;

But this is not supported either.

Tim

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