From: | Torsten Zuehlsdorff <foo(at)meisterderspiele(dot)de> |
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To: | pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: Migrate to Postgres - Alias a Keyword? |
Date: | 2013-03-05 13:45:44 |
Message-ID: | 5135F708.4070100@meisterderspiele.de |
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Hi,
> We are migrating from Firebird to Postgres. We try to minimise changes
> required to the application code which has lots of SQLs in it. One of
> the incompatibilities between these two is the way to limit the number
> of rows returned by a SELECT query.
>
> In Postgres, /SELECT * FROM TestTable LIMIT 10/
> In Firebird, /SELECT * FROM TestTable ROWS 10/
>
> What I'm trying to do here is to get Postgres to accept ROWS as if it's
> LIMIT. Looks like this is possible by adding an alias
> in /src/include/parser/kwlist.h, although ROWS is already defined in it
> for other purpose.
>
> Does anyone has a suggestion on this? Can I achieve this without
> recompiling our own copy of Postgres?
i would hack the application, if there is database-layer in. For
problems like this i created the DDDBL (PHP, documentation in german,
sorry). It is a layer between application and database with full
controll over the queries and their result.
This is exactly the point to manipulate the SQL. There are many pitfalls
- like LIMIT as part of a relation, constant, etc - but it will work.
Greetings from Germany,
Torsten
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