Re: Remove ROW | ROWS from OFFSET and FETCH

From: Thom Brown <thombrown(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Marko Tiikkaja <marko(dot)tiikkaja(at)cs(dot)helsinki(dot)fi>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Remove ROW | ROWS from OFFSET and FETCH
Date: 2010-03-26 00:24:54
Message-ID: bddc86151003251724t4a0d7b31l18a8f8058d448a2a@mail.gmail.com
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On 26 March 2010 00:14, Marko Tiikkaja <marko(dot)tiikkaja(at)cs(dot)helsinki(dot)fi> wrote:
> On 3/26/10 2:01 AM +0200, Thom Brown wrote:
>>
>> I was wondering if it might be worth making ROW/ROWS optional for
>> OFFSET and FETCH clauses?  And can ONLY be optional too?
>
> AIUI the only time you'd want to use that syntax is when you want to write
> (theoretically) portable code, and making parts of the syntax optional is
> just breaking that portability.  We already have a non-portable,
> non-standard syntax.
>

I understand. If that's the case I'll concede the point. :)

Thanks

Thom

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