Re: integer ceiling in LIMIT and OFFSET

Rod Taylor wrote:
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> On Wed, 2003-10-22 at 04:01, Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote:
> > Hi guys,
> >
> > What is the limit on the number of rows in a PostgreSQL table? If it's
> > more than MAXINT, we have a problem:
> >
> > phppgadmin# select * from test limit 2147483648;
> > ERROR: integer out of range
> >
> > Same problem with OFFSET.
>
> I see you're point, but nobody is going to be interested in the first 2
> billion rows of a table without using a cursor and having some other
> process do the math in the background.
>
> That said, perhaps the TODO for changing LIMIT / OFFSET to be expression
> based should also mention bumping them to int8.

Added to TODO:

* Change LIMIT/OFFSET to use int8

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