Jeff wrote:
> Is there a practical use for retrieving > 2^31 records at once?
>
> (this is a serious question, I'm not arguing that it should cause a
> syntax error)
>
> Regards,
> Jeff Davis
>
> On Mon, 2005-01-24 at 14:13 -0500, Merlin Moncure wrote:
> > I was browsing the TODO list and I noticed the todo to bump
limit/offset
> > to int8. IMO, the flavors of fetch that take a numeric parameter
need
> > this as well.
> >
> > FWIW, trying to pass integer > 2^31 to fetch gives a syntax error,
which
> > is clearly wrong.
No, but don't forget about relative positioning:
fetch relative c from huge_cursor;
Could make a reasonable case for that.
Merlin
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