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From Greg Stark
Subject Re: SELECT * FROM foo OFFSET -1 LIMIT 1
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In response to Re: SELECT * FROM foo OFFSET -1 LIMIT 1  (Markus Bertheau <twanger@bluetwanger.de>)
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Markus Bertheau <twanger@bluetwanger.de> writes:

> Offset for negative numbers means 0, as it seems. I think there is a
> sensible meaning for negative offset numbers and wondered, what
> arguments led to negative offsets being processed as 0 offset.

Frankly I'm surprised it's not a syntax error.

-- 
greg

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