Re: offset and limit in update and subselect

I see this (subselect) is available in >=7.1.

Tim

Timothy H. Keitt wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> It appears that limit and offset do not work in a subselect such as:
> 
>     update my_table set my_col = new_val where oid = (select oid from 
> my_table offset row_number limit 1);
> 
> Basically, I need to update rows by offset from the beginning of the 
> table.  Even nicer would be
> 
>     update my_table set my_col = new_val offset row_number limit 1;
> 
> But this is not supported either.
> 
> Tim


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