Re: Re: Use of the LIMIT clause ?

On Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 09:21:58PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Spy <spy(at)joystick(dot)fr> writes:
> > Tom Lane a écrit :
> >> Is that actually how MySQL interprets two parameters? We treat them
> >> as count and offset respectively, which definition I thought was the
> >> same as MySQL's.
>
> > But MySQL's syntax is different, as found on
> > http://www.mysql.com/doc/S/E/SELECT.html :
> > "SELECT [STRAIGHT_JOIN] [SQL_SMALL_RESULT] [SQL_BIG_RESULT]
> > [SQL_BUFFER_RESULT]
> > [...]
> > [LIMIT [offset,] rows]"
>
> That's annoying; looks like we do it backwards from MySQL. Can anyone
> confirm that this is how MySQL behaves (maybe it's a typo on this
> documentation page)?

Yes, it does behave as documented.

> Should we consider changing ours if it is different?

I don't know that it's worth it... it seems to inconvenience some
people either way. I may soon be moving a moderately complex system
from MySQL to Postgres and it wouldn't be the end of my world if
I had to reverse all the LIMITs.

Richard