I think the mitigating circumstance here is that Rick says that this is an *omission* on part of the SQL standards committee. Naturally, they might change the syntax entirely for 2011, or choose *not* to allow this anyway, but that hardly seems likely. The OFFSET, FETCH FIRST/NEXT syntax is now fixed in three places (at least: the standard, PostgresQL and DB2). To me it seems a very low risk to take; we *are* supporting the standard syntax: In addition we are fixing the committee's omission in expectation that this will be included.
I guess this all boils down how strictly we interpret our charter of following the standard. I worry our users will see our barring this as being overly careful at the cost of usability. Anyway, I'm out for 2 weeks, so this won't make 10.5.2 in any case ;) Dag
