Jaime Casanova wrote:
> Hi.
>
> Our current docs says that we support the following syntax (i'm
> putting just the lines that disturbes me) inside a SELECT statement
> """
> [ LIMIT { count | ALL } ]
> [ OFFSET start [ ROW | ROWS ] ]
> [ FETCH { FIRST | NEXT } [ count ] { ROW | ROWS } ONLY ]
> """
>
> i read that as allow me to use the ROWS in an OFFSET clause whatever i
> use LIMIT or FETCH for limiting results but seems like we try hard to
> make a distinguish from old syntax and new (sql standard) syntax
>
> pruebas=# select * from tab1 limit 3 offset 2 rows;
> ERROR: syntax error at or near "rows"
> LINE 1: select * from tab1 limit 3 offset 2 rows;
> ^
> pruebas=# select * from tab1 offset 2 fetch next 3 rows only;
> ERROR: syntax error at or near "fetch"
> LINE 1: select * from tab1 offset 2 fetch next 3 rows only;
FYI, this is fixed in 9.0:
test=> select * from tab1 limit 3 offset 2 rows;
x
---
(0 rows)
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