Re: a question on SQL

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: "Greg Sabino Mullane" <greg(at)turnstep(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: a question on SQL
Date: 2006-12-12 21:40:59
Message-ID: 25161.1165959659@sss.pgh.pa.us
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"Greg Sabino Mullane" <greg(at)turnstep(dot)com> writes:
>> It's the single most useful non-standard SQL feature postgresql has. It
>> is thus simultaneously bad (from a portatbility aspect) and brilliant
>> (because it's a million times easier and faster than the alternatives).

> You mean second-most useful. LIMIT/OFFSET is the champion, hand down. :)

Yeah, but that one's only quasi-non-standard ... several other DBMSes
have it too.

regards, tom lane

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