incorrect syntax for offset

From: Jaime Casanova <jcasanov(at)systemguards(dot)com(dot)ec>
To: pgsql-docs <pgsql-docs(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: incorrect syntax for offset
Date: 2009-08-18 22:08:01
Message-ID: 3073cc9b0908181508n766464b7jffab0fa3977299e5@mail.gmail.com
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Hi.

Our current docs says that we support the following syntax (i'm
putting just the lines that disturbes me) inside a SELECT statement
"""
[ LIMIT { count | ALL } ]
[ OFFSET start [ ROW | ROWS ] ]
[ FETCH { FIRST | NEXT } [ count ] { ROW | ROWS } ONLY ]
"""

i read that as allow me to use the ROWS in an OFFSET clause whatever i
use LIMIT or FETCH for limiting results but seems like we try hard to
make a distinguish from old syntax and new (sql standard) syntax

pruebas=# select * from tab1 limit 3 offset 2 rows;
ERROR: syntax error at or near "rows"
LINE 1: select * from tab1 limit 3 offset 2 rows;
^
pruebas=# select * from tab1 offset 2 fetch next 3 rows only;
ERROR: syntax error at or near "fetch"
LINE 1: select * from tab1 offset 2 fetch next 3 rows only;
^
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Atentamente,
Jaime Casanova
Soporte y capacitación de PostgreSQL
Asesoría y desarrollo de sistemas
Guayaquil - Ecuador
Cel. +59387171157

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