On 9/4/14 4:09 PM, Shaun Thomas wrote:
> On 09/03/2014 04:19 PM, Hannu Krosing wrote:
>
>> 1. Conditions for number of rows returned by SELECT or touched by
>> UPDATE or DELETE
>
> Now that I think upon this... don't we already have it?
>
> SELECT ... LIMIT 1
No, that just hides any bugs. We want the opposite: any bugs or
problems should be obvious. If the query returns or touches more than
one row, that should raise an error, not just give you a random one and
call it a day.
> That already solves the purported problem of multiple results in SELECT
> INTO as well. Could we possibly extend that to UPDATE and DELETE syntax too?
Again, this is a different problem, but LIMIT syntax for UPDATE and
DELETE has been proposed, see:
http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CADB9FDf-Vh6RnKAMZ4Rrg_YP9p3THdPbji8qe4qkxRuiOwm=mg@mail.gmail.com
.marko