>
> Would something like this be valid?
>
> OFFSET { start_literal | ( start_expression ) } { ROW | ROWS }
> FETCH { FIRST | NEXT} [ count_literal | ( count_expression ) ] { ROW |
> ROWS } ONLY
>
> Leaving the mandatory parentheses detail to the description, while
> adequate, seems insufficient - especially when a normal LIMIT expression is
> not so restricted.
>
> And don't you think the section header would be more accurately named:
>
> Limit, Offset & Fetch Clauses
>
> The nuance regarding "different standard syntax" is unknown to the reader
> who first looks at the syntax and sees three different lines, one for each
> clause, and then scrolls down looking at headers until they find the
> section for the clause they are interested in. That FETCH is an alias for
> LIMIT is not something that I immediately understood - though to be honest
> I don't think I comprehended the presence of FETCH on a SELECT query at all
> and thought it only pertained to cursors....
>
>
All these suggestions would definitely have saved me (and therefore this
list!) some time.