On Feb 8, 2006, at 11:35 , Merlin Moncure wrote:
>> On Feb 8, 2006, at 11:17 , Merlin Moncure wrote:
>>
>>> The proper SQL construct without row constructor is:
>>>
>>> select * from t where
>>> a >= a1 and
>>> (a > a1 or b>= b1) and
>>> (a > a1 or b > b1 or c > c1)
>>> order by a,b,c limit 1 ^ no offset necessary
>>>
>>> confused yet?
>>
>> This is interesting! Could you also provide the equivalent *with* a
>> row constructor? (or did I miss that somewhere?)
>
> select * from t where (a,b,c) > (a1, b1, c1) order by a,b,c limit 1;
> [plus full usage of key on t(a,b,c)]
Thanks! I'll need to ruminate on this for a while.
Michael Glaesemann
grzm myrealbox com
