Re: [HACKERS] What about LIMIT in SELECT ?

Jan Wieck <jwieck@debis.com>

From: jwieck@debis.com (Jan Wieck)
To: maillist@candle.pha.pa.us (Bruce Momjian)
Cc: jwieck@debis.com, Inoue@tpf.co.jp, hackers@postgreSQL.org
Date: 1998-10-20T17:22:40Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
> 
> > >
> > > I agree.  Another good thing is that the LIMIT thing will not require a
> > > dump/reload, so it is a good candidate for a minor release.
> > 
> >     That's wrong, sorry.
> > 
> >     The  limit  thing as I implemented it adds 2 new variables to
> >     the Query structure. Rewrite rules are stored  as  querytrees
> >     and in the existing pg_rewrite entries that would be missing.
> 
> Oh, sorry.  I forgot.  That could be tough.

    But it wouldn't hurt to add them now to have them in
    place. The required out-, read- and copyfuncs are in
    my patch too. This  would prevent  dump/load when we
    later add the real LIMIT functionality. And  it does
    not change anything now.


Jan

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