On Mon, 2009-01-12 at 15:26 +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote: > 1) We document bluntly that ORDER BY + FOR UPDATE can return unordered > results, or > > 2) We prohibit ORDER BY + FOR UPDATE, like we do with a number of other > clauses. (There would be no loss of functionality, because you can run > the query a second time in the transaction with ORDER BY.) >
I like Lee's idea of a WARNING plus a documentation note -- seems like a reasonable compromise. Maybe we can add the prohibition later if we still don't have a fix for it. Regards, Jeff Davis -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers