Hi!
>>>>> "Magnus" == Magnus Enbom <dot@stripped> writes:
Magnus> Hi,
Magnus> I've just been hit by a small but annoying difference between postgres(7.2)
Magnus> and MySQL(4.x).
Magnus> To get the first row of a table and lock it, you do
Magnus> SELECT * FROM table FOR UPDATE LIMIT 1;
Magnus> in postgres, and
Magnus> SELECT * FROM table LIMIT 1 FOR UPDATE;
Magnus> in MySQL(with innodb).
Magnus> Is it possible for MySQL to accept the postgres syntax as well?
Magnus> It's not that many databases that implement LIMIT, so it would be nice if the
Magnus> ones that do have the same syntax(or can accept each others variants).
I will check if we can fix this for 4.0.x
(I took a quick look at this, but could not find an obvious way to do
this without extending sql_yacc.yy a lot)
(This will however not make LIMIT PostgreSQL compliant as PostgreSQL,
because of a bug introduces by the guy who tried to copy the LIMIT
functionally from MySQL to PostgreSQL and accidently swapped the
meaning of the 2 version argument of LIMIT :( )
Regards,
Monty
