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] _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp

