Re: xmlagg doesn't honor LIMIT? - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Albe Laurenz
Subject Re: xmlagg doesn't honor LIMIT?
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Msg-id A737B7A37273E048B164557ADEF4A58B17C60299@ntex2010i.host.magwien.gv.at
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In response to xmlagg doesn't honor LIMIT?  (Peter Kroon <plakroon@gmail.com>)
Responses Re: xmlagg doesn't honor LIMIT?  (Peter Kroon <plakroon@gmail.com>)
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Peter Kroon wrote:
> Is anyone able to reproduce?
> When I run the query below all 5 rows are returned instead of 2.
> Or is this the default behaviour..

> SELECT
> xmlagg(
[...]
> )--xmlagg
> FROM __pg_test_table AS dh
> WHERE dh.__rel=5 LIMIT 2 --OFFSET 10;

According to the documentation, that query should return
exactly one row since xmlagg is an aggregate.

So the LIMIT 2 won't do anything to the result.

You can wrap your query in a
SELECT count(*) FROM (SELECT ...) AS dummy;
to see how many rows you got.

Yours,
Laurenz Albe

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