Re: [SQL] trivial problem

On Fri, 29 Oct 1999, Oleg Bartunov wrote:

> select * from table order by column limit 50
> 

It used to be and could still be in Oracle (sorry to pull them into this)
that limit applied to the selection clause so the first 'n' tulples
selected,not the top/bottom 'n', would be reported.  Would this be a feature of the SQL standard or of Oracles
implementation?  And how does PostgreSQL handle limits?

Rod
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