Re: Negative LIMIT and OFFSET?

"Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:

> mysql> select * from t limit 2 offset -2;
> ERROR 1064 (42000): You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near '-2' at line 1
>
> This behavior suggests that they can't even deal with LIMIT/OFFSET
> values that aren't simple integer literals ...

I suppose when they added these features I think they didn't have subqueries,
so there wasn't really much useful that could be done with arbitrary
expressions here. Being able to do "LIMIT 1+1" doesn't actually add anything.

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