Re: subquery in limit

From: "Roberts, Jon" <Jon(dot)Roberts(at)asurion(dot)com>
To: "Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: "Grzegorz Jaskiewicz" <gj(at)pointblue(dot)com(dot)pl>, <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: subquery in limit
Date: 2008-02-15 15:46:21
Message-ID: 1A6E6D554222284AB25ABE3229A927627155C0@nrtexcus702.int.asurion.com
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> "Roberts, Jon" <Jon(dot)Roberts(at)asurion(dot)com> writes:
> > I have no idea why you can't do a subquery in the limit
>
> It hasn't seemed worth putting any effort into --- AFAIR this is the
> first time anyone's even inquired about it. As you say, you can
always
> use a function.
>
> > And I'm sure someone will point out a more efficient way to write my
> > function without using pl/pgsql. :)
>
> Only that it doesn't seem a particularly bright idea to use SECURITY
> DEFINER for a function that will execute any arbitrary caller-provided
> SQL ...
>

LOL! I knew something in my code would trigger a response. :)

Jon

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