Re: Proposed TODO: fetch->INT8

From: Jeff Davis <jdavis-pgsql(at)empires(dot)org>
To: Merlin Moncure <merlin(dot)moncure(at)rcsonline(dot)com>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Proposed TODO: fetch->INT8
Date: 2005-01-24 20:05:20
Message-ID: 1106597120.2886.770.camel@jeff
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Is there a practical use for retrieving > 2^31 records at once?

(this is a serious question, I'm not arguing that it should cause a
syntax error)

Regards,
Jeff Davis

On Mon, 2005-01-24 at 14:13 -0500, Merlin Moncure wrote:
> I was browsing the TODO list and I noticed the todo to bump limit/offset
> to int8. IMO, the flavors of fetch that take a numeric parameter need
> this as well.
>
> FWIW, trying to pass integer > 2^31 to fetch gives a syntax error, which
> is clearly wrong.
>
> Merlin
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