Re: offset and limit in update and subselect

From: "Timothy H(dot) Keitt" <Timothy(dot)Keitt(at)SUNYSB(dot)Edu>
To: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: offset and limit in update and subselect
Date: 2001-02-24 20:22:33
Message-ID: 3A981809.9050202@SUNYSB.Edu
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I see this (subselect) is available in >=7.1.

Tim

Timothy H. Keitt wrote:

> 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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