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Re: Negative LIMIT and OFFSET?

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Gregory Stark <stark@enterprisedb.com>
Cc: "Jonah H. Harris" <jonah.harris@gmail.com>, "Simon Riggs" <simon@2ndquadrant.com>, "Neil Conway" <neilc@samurai.com>, "Andrew Sullivan" <ajs@crankycanuck.ca>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2007-12-15T07:34:29Z
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Gregory Stark <stark@enterprisedb.com> writes:
>> On Dec 14, 2007 6:42 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>>> How do people feel about applying this to 8.3, rather than holding it?

> I think it would have been better to apply before beta. We would have found
> out if users were going to complain about it. Perhaps we should do it for 8.4
> instead

Um ... what's your point?  Are you suggesting we might've backed it out
if a bunch of people complained?  Perhaps, but given that no one's even
noticed the detail before, it seems pretty unlikely there would have
been any complaints during beta.

			regards, tom lane