Re: LIMIT 1 FOR UPDATE or FOR UPDATE LIMIT 1?

Bruce Momjian wrote:
>
> I found this email from April. It properly points out that our
> LIMIT/FOR UPDATE ordering doesn't match MySQL's, and MySQL's looks more
> correct, specifically that the FOR UPDATE is after the LIMIT. Our
> grammar is:

How do you define "correct" for "non-standard" features? And why don't
you ask Monty first to change to our "de-facto-standard"? ;-)

Jan

>
> | select_clause sort_clause opt_for_update_clause opt_select_limit
>
> How do we want to deal with this? I tried allowing both orderings with
> the attached patch but got:
>
> bison -y -d gram.y
> conflicts: 4 shift/reduce, 5 reduce/reduce
>
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>
> Magnus Enbom wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I've just been hit by a small but annoying difference between postgres(7.2)
> > and mysql(4.x).
> > In postgresql you do:
> >
> > SELECT * FROM table FOR UPDATE LIMIT 1;
> >
> > and in mysql you do:
> >
> > SELECT * FROM table LIMIT 1 FOR UPDATE;
> >
> > Is it possible for postgres to accept the mysql syntax as well?
> > It's not that many databases that implement LIMIT, so it would be nice if the
> > ones that do have the same syntax(or can accept each others variants).
> >
> > -- Magnus
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