>
> > Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> > > What if someone wants the rows from 500 to the end. Should we allow
> > > the syntax to be:
> > > SELECT ... [LIMIT count] [OFFSET offset]
> > > LIMIT and OFFSET are independent.
> >
> > I like that syntax the best, but remember we are not inventing in
> > a green field here. Isn't this a feature that already exists in
> > other DBMs? We should probably copy their syntax, unless it's
> > truly spectacularly awful...
>
> Informix uses the following syntax, but does not have the offset feature:
>
> select first 100 * from table ....
I definitely don't like that syntax.
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