Richard,

> > Josh - if I try and do OFFSET at the same time (presumably it's the
> same
> > change) do you fancy acting as a sanity test site?
> 
> What am I talking about - OFFSET is going to be parsed by the SQL
> parser not
> the plpgsql parser.

Not so, not so!

Try the following two PL/pgSQL functions:

DECLARE
        h INT;
        k INT;
        a_row a%ROWTYPE;
BEGIN
        h := 1;
        k := 3;
        SELECT * FROM a INTO a_row
        ORDER BY a.1
        LIMIT 1 OFFSET (h + k);
END;

        ... blows up, but  ...


DECLARE
        h INT;
        k INT;
        a_row a%ROWTYPE;
BEGIN
        h := 1;
        k := (3 + h);
        SELECT * FROM a INTO a_row
        ORDER BY a.1
        LIMIT 1 OFFSET k;
END;

 ... works.


As far as I can tell, PL/pgSQL is not evaluating the expression before
passing it on to the SQL parser.  Or is the SQL parser supposed to
accept (1 + 3) ....

Oh, I see what you mean.   Sorry!  Should I bug-traq this problem?  

-Josh


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