Re: pgsql/src/backend/nodes (copyfuncs.c outfuncs.c print.c)

From: Philip Warner <pjw(at)rhyme(dot)com(dot)au>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Hiroshi Inoue <Inoue(at)tpf(dot)co(dot)jp>
Cc: pgsql-committers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: pgsql/src/backend/nodes (copyfuncs.c outfuncs.c print.c)
Date: 2000-10-27 11:18:10
Message-ID: 3.0.5.32.20001027211810.01e3fb50@mail.rhyme.com.au
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At 20:59 26/10/00 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>Hiroshi Inoue <Inoue(at)tpf(dot)co(dot)jp> writes:
>> Yes I want to give optimizer a hint "return first rows fast".
>> When Jan implemented LIMIT first,there was an option
>> "LIMIT ALL" and it was exactly designed for the purpose.
>
>Well, we could make that work that way again, I think.

I think that would be a *bad* idea. ISTM that the syntax is obtuse for the
meaning it is being given. The (mild) confusion in this thread is evidence
of that, at least.

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