Ah, fair enough, good way to ensure sites don't gradually slow down as they grow. Looks like D7 includes a variable to specify a different limit so thats pretty cool too.
Thanks for pointing the hard coded limit out Bob On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 11:35 AM, Earl Miles <mer...@logrus.com> wrote: > On 1/26/2011 10:23 AM, bob brazeau wrote: >> $result = db_query_range($sql, $args, 0, >> variable_get('feed_default_items', 10)); > > This function will fetch 10 items or the number of items specified in > the variable only. It will not fetch all items. This is more or less a > safety mechanism. If you have 1 million items in your database, this > would crush your site every time it is visited. >