Re: integer ceiling in LIMIT and OFFSET

On Wed, 22 Oct 2003, Tom Lane wrote:

> Rod Taylor <rbt@rbt.ca> writes:
> > That said, perhaps the TODO for changing LIMIT / OFFSET to be expression
> > based should also mention bumping them to int8.
> 
> Can't get excited about it ... this would slow down the normal use of
> the facility for what seems a completely hypothetical need.

While I'm pretty sure 

select * from sometable limit 2147483648

isn't gonna be common, maybe someone would be likely to do something like:

select * from sometable limit 10 offset 2147483648

I wouldn't do it, but who knows what shadows lurk in men's minds?