Re: [HACKERS] Solution for LIMIT cost estimation

At 02:43 AM 2/15/00 +0200, Hannu Krosing wrote:
>Don Baccus wrote:

>> Well...personally I don't see LIMIT as being particularly harmful,
>> and it is a convenience.  Remember, for the web space you're speaking
>> of keeping overhead low is a real concern, and requiring a series
>> of queries where currently only one needed will probably go over like
>> a lead ballon.
>
>I meant that the _backend_ could (in some distant future, when the 
>optimiser is perfect :) implement LIMIT as above sequence.

Oops!  Sorry...at the moment I'm near to loathing the very existence
of LIMIT so misunderstood :)



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