Re: UPDATE & LIMIT together?

tp wrote:
> Hmm,,
>
> thanks so far, it helped.
>
> The query is horrible slow on full tables (>100.000 rows).
> Is there any other solution? I just want to have the 'next 10 entries'
> WHERE state=10 and update state=20.
> (so that on the next request i or another process only gets the
> new entires in queue).
>
>
> My query now looks like:
> UPDATE queue SET state=20 WHERE (id) IN (SELECT id FROM queue LIMIT 10)

Without an ORDER BY, I am not sure what that LIMIT is returning.

I don't know of a faster way.

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