On Thu, 16 May 2024 at 23:27, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org> wrote:
> 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.
After some dig in, I find transformLimitClause() has the following comments:
* Note: as of Postgres 8.2, LIMIT expressions are expected to yield int8,
* rather than int4 as before.
So the deparseConst() append '::bigint' typecast, same as get_rule_expr().
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Regards,
Japin Li
