Merlin Moncure wrote:
> Jeff wrote:
> > Is there a practical use for retrieving > 2^31 records at once?
> >
> > (this is a serious question, I'm not arguing that it should cause a
> > syntax error)
> >
> > Regards,
> > Jeff Davis
> >
> > On Mon, 2005-01-24 at 14:13 -0500, Merlin Moncure wrote:
> > > I was browsing the TODO list and I noticed the todo to bump
> limit/offset
> > > to int8. IMO, the flavors of fetch that take a numeric parameter
> need
> > > this as well.
> > >
> > > FWIW, trying to pass integer > 2^31 to fetch gives a syntax error,
> which
> > > is clearly wrong.
>
> No, but don't forget about relative positioning:
> fetch relative c from huge_cursor;
TODO updated:
* Change LIMIT/OFFSET and FETCH/MOVE to use int8
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