On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 12:59 AM, Yuan Wang <[email protected]> wrote:
> I think Drizzle should consider the ability to push down OFFSET to the
> storage engine. LIMIT/OFFSET is very common in most Web applications.
> Where there are lists, there are LIMIT/OFFSETs. For example, each user
> in Blog has a list of his articles. For this list could be long, we
> display it in pages, using the following SQL:

This is a nice description of the problem and the feature that you
need. But I have been burned so many times in production by queries
with large offsets that I also want a feature to allow me to either
ban queries with an offset or set a limit on the max offset that can
be used. Of course, I can do that whether or not the optimization you
have requested is supported.

Note that I don't write SQL, I just debug it and make it less slow and
this was written from experience --
http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=206034210932

-- 
Mark Callaghan
[email protected]

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