Re: DELETE with LIMIT (or my first hack)

On tis, 2010-11-30 at 14:20 -0500, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> I agree, that argument is completely misconceived. If the DBA is
> paying enough attention to use LIMIT, s/he should be paying enough
> attention not to do damage in the first place. If that were the only
> argument in its favor I'd be completely against the feature.

I don't have any use for DELETE with LIMIT, but UPDATE with LIMIT could
be very useful if you are doing full-table updates and you don't have
enough space so you do it in chunks.