| From: | "Roderick A(dot) Anderson" <raanders(at)altoplanos(dot)net> |
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| To: | Oleg Bartunov <oleg(at)sai(dot)msu(dot)su> |
| Cc: | pgsql-sql(at)postgreSQL(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: [SQL] trivial problem |
| Date: | 1999-10-29 17:07:16 |
| Message-ID: | Pine.LNX.4.04.9910291001080.6068-100000@asgard.altoplanos.net |
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On Fri, 29 Oct 1999, Oleg Bartunov wrote:
> select * from table order by column limit 50
>
It used to be and could still be in Oracle (sorry to pull them into this)
that limit applied to the selection clause so the first 'n' tulples
selected,not the top/bottom 'n', would be reported.
Would this be a feature of the SQL standard or of Oracles
implementation? And how does PostgreSQL handle limits?
Rod
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