Re: LIMIT 1 FOR UPDATE or FOR UPDATE LIMIT 1?

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: magnus(dot)enbom(at)rockstorm(dot)se
Cc: pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: LIMIT 1 FOR UPDATE or FOR UPDATE LIMIT 1?
Date: 2002-09-05 05:27:22
Message-ID: 200209050527.g855RMF05124@candle.pha.pa.us
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7.3, due out in a few months, will support both clause orderings.

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Magnus Enbom wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've just been hit by a small but annoying difference between postgres(7.2)
> and mysql(4.x).
> In postgresql you do:
>
> SELECT * FROM table FOR UPDATE LIMIT 1;
>
> and in mysql you do:
>
> SELECT * FROM table LIMIT 1 FOR UPDATE;
>
> Is it possible for postgres to accept the mysql syntax as well?
> It's not that many databases that implement LIMIT, so it would be nice if the
> ones that do have the same syntax(or can accept each others variants).
>
> -- Magnus
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