offset and limit in update and subselect

Hi,

It appears that limit and offset do not work in a subselect such as:

update my_table set my_col = new_val where oid = (select oid from
my_table offset row_number limit 1);

Basically, I need to update rows by offset from the beginning of the
table. Even nicer would be

update my_table set my_col = new_val offset row_number limit 1;

But this is not supported either.

Tim

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Timothy H. Keitt
Department of Ecology and Evolution
State University of New York at Stony Brook
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