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> >Description:
> The documentation says that I can do:
> select * from table order by rand() limit 10
> as an example, however it fails and there is no error message.
> I *can* do:
> select * from table order by rand()
> which works fine. It just seems that adding the limit clause causes
> something to break.
> >How-To-Repeat:
> Easy way:
> mysql mysql
> select * from users order by rand() limit 10
> On my database machine using the latest stable binray release it fails.
> >Fix:
> None known
>
> >Submitter-Id: <submitter ID>
> >Originator: Shawn Wallace
> >Organization:
> Justweb Inc.
> >MySQL support: [none | licence | email support | extended email support ]
> >Synopsis: Problem combining order by rand() with limit
> >Severity: serious
> >Priority: medium
> >Category: mysql
> >Class: sw-bug
> >Release: mysql-3.23.35 (Official MySQL RPM)
> >Server: /usr/bin/mysqladmin Ver 8.18 Distrib 3.23.35, for pc-linux-gnu on i686
> Copyright (C) 2000 MySQL AB & MySQL Finland AB & TCX DataKonsult AB
> This software comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. This is free software,
> and you are welcome to modify and redistribute it under the GPL license
>
> Server version 3.23.35
> Protocol version 10
> Connection Localhost via UNIX socket
> UNIX socket /var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock
> Uptime: 5 hours 56 min 1 sec
>
> Threads: 3 Questions: 160022 Slow queries: 0 Opens: 106 Flush tables: 1 Open
>tables: 100 Queries per second avg: 7.491
> >Environment:
>
> System: Linux darthvader 2.2.18pre21-RAID #2 Wed Feb 14 17:21:03 EST 2001 i686
>unknown
> Architecture: i686
>
> Some paths: /usr/bin/perl /usr/bin/make /usr/bin/gcc /usr/bin/cc
> GCC: Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-linux/2.95.2/specs
> gcc version 2.95.2 20000220 (Debian GNU/Linux)
> Compilation info: CC='egcs' CFLAGS='-O6 -fomit-frame-pointer -mpentium' CXX='egcs'
> CXXFLAGS='-O6 -fomit-frame-pointer -felide-constructors
>-fno-exceptions -fno-rtti -mpentium' LDFLAGS=''
> LIBC:
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 Mar 12 13:22 /lib/libc.so.6 ->
>libc-2.1.3.so
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 887712 Jan 15 15:06 /lib/libc-2.1.3.so
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2089496 Jan 15 15:07 /usr/lib/libc.a
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 178 Jan 15 15:07 /usr/lib/libc.so
> Configure command: ./configure --disable-shared --with-mysqld-ldflags=-all-static
>--with-client-ldflags=-all-static --enable-assembler --with-mysqld-user=mysql
>--with-unix-socket-path=/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock --prefix=/
>--with-extra-charsets=complex --exec-prefix=/usr --libexecdir=/usr/sbin
>--sysconfdir=/etc --datadir=/usr/share --localstatedir=/var/lib/mysql
>--infodir=/usr/info --includedir=/usr/include --mandir=/usr/man --without-berkeley-db
>--without-innobase '--with-comment=Official MySQL RPM'
> Perl: This is perl, version 5.005_03 built for i386-linux
Hi!
I tested the above and it worked just fine for me.
What exactly did not work. Please check that your table is not
corrupt.
Regards,
Sinisa
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