Re: pgsql/src/backend/nodes (copyfuncs.c outfuncs.c print.c)

At 20:59 26/10/00 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>Hiroshi Inoue <Inoue@tpf.co.jp> writes:
>> Yes I want to give optimizer a hint  "return first rows fast".
>> When Jan implemented LIMIT first,there was an option
>> "LIMIT ALL" and it was exactly designed for the purpose.
>
>Well, we could make that work that way again, I think.

I think that would be a *bad* idea. ISTM that the syntax is obtuse for the
meaning it is being given. The (mild) confusion in this thread is evidence
of that, at least.



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