On Fri, 2004-10-15 at 17:09, Josh Berkus wrote: > I propose that I add this sentence to the Docs: > > -------------- > Please not that, since LIMIT is applied before FOR UPDATE, rows which ^^^ I assume this should be "note". It took me a little time to parse your plaintive appeal correctly. :-)
> disappear from the target set while waiting for a lock may result in less > than LIMIT # of rows being returned. This can result in unintuitive > behavior, so FOR UPDATE and LIMIT should only be combined after significant > testing. > --------------- -- Oliver Elphick [EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver GPG: 1024D/A54310EA 92C8 39E7 280E 3631 3F0E 1EC0 5664 7A2F A543 10EA ======================================== "But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves." James 1:22 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org