Re: Controlling Reuslts with Limit
Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Najm Hashmi <najm@mondo-live.com>
Cc: pgsql <pgsql-sql@postgresql.org>
Date: 2001-02-23T21:39:27Z
Lists: pgsql-sql
Najm Hashmi <najm@mondo-live.com> writes: > I just want to know what exatly --"LIMIT without ORDER BY returns random rows > from the query" --means It means the results aren't guaranteed. It doesn't mean that the exact same query run under the exact same conditions by the exact same version of Postgres won't return the same results every time. Especially not one that's too simple to have more than one possible execution plan... regards, tom lane