| From: | "Jim C(dot) Nasby" <jnasby(at)pervasive(dot)com> |
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| To: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | CSN <cool_screen_name90001(at)yahoo(dot)com>, "pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Negative offsets |
| Date: | 2005-12-17 00:26:56 |
| Message-ID: | 20051217002656.GD53809@pervasive.com |
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On Fri, Dec 16, 2005 at 07:14:42PM -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Actually we allow negative offsets and limits. Seems we should disallow
> them. Yes, it would be interesting if they did offsets relative to the
> end of the result set.
Either interesting or a great way to introduce bugs... AFAIK you can
always get the same behavior just by reversing the sort order, so I'd
lean towards not allowing negative offsets.
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