> Hi,
> I was reading through Bruce's on line . I found follwing bit unclear...
>
> "Notice that each query uses ORDER BY . Although this clause is not required,
> LIMIT without ORDER BY returns random rows from the query, which would be
> useless. "
It means there is no guarantee which rows will be returned. You may get
the rows you want, or you may not. Without the ORDER BY, the backend
can return any five rows it wishes.
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