Re: To Postgres Devs : Wouldn't changing the select limit

> If you are confident that LIMIT #,# would never be an official SQL
> standard who am I to second guess that ;) I don't see that possibility
> anywhere either, but I just wanted to make sure. The possibility that it
> might become an official standard is the only objection I had against
> deprecating and eventual elimination of that syntax.
>
> LIMIT # OFFSET # has my vote.

One more thing. I have added the code to suggest alternate syntax for
LIMIT #,#:

test=> select * from pg_class LIMIT 1,1;
ERROR: LIMIT #,# syntax no longer supported. Use LIMIT # OFFSET #.

If there are other queries that use syntax that frequently fails, I
would like to hear about it so we can generate a helpful error message
rather than just a generic syntax error.

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