Re: This is a limit-offset bug?

From: Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org>
To: Emanuel Calvo Franco <postgres(dot)arg(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: General PostgreSQL List <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: This is a limit-offset bug?
Date: 2008-12-26 16:46:42
Message-ID: 20081226164642.GA28583@svana.org
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On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 09:52:59AM -0200, Emanuel Calvo Franco wrote:
> Hi people,
>
> Yesterday when i was making some commands on 8.3.5
> (on Centos)
> i found a rare behavior of limit offset.
>
> Try in psql:
>
> select * from foo limit 3; <- shows ok
> select * from foo limit3; <- shows all rows
> select * from foo offset1223raf3w4t4tgga; <- shows all rows
> select * from foo limitsdfsdfaerfgsafqaweawe; <- shows all rows
> select * from foo limit; <- this shows error ok
> select * from foo limitt; ....

At a wild gues, if the string after the table name is a single token it
gets interpreted as an alias for the table. Remember that AS is
optional.

Have a nice day,
--
Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org> http://svana.org/kleptog/
> Please line up in a tree and maintain the heap invariant while
> boarding. Thank you for flying nlogn airlines.

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