Re: Re: Use of the LIMIT clause ?

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> On Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 09:21:58PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> > Spy <spy@joystick.fr> writes:
> > > Tom Lane a ?crit :
> > >> 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.
> 

Added to TODO.  If we took the feature from MySQL, seems we should match
it.  This will require a clear notice in the release notes:
* Change LIMIT val,val to be offset,limit to match MySQL   

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