Sam Mason <sam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > wow, that's kind of fun isn't it. I only thought you could put a > constant in there. Maybe I should have had a look in the grammar/tested > it first! IIRC, it used to be restricted to a constant, a few revisions back. In current releases the only restriction that stems from laziness is not allowing a sub-select. (If anyone were to put forward a serious use-case, we'd probably go fix that.) The OP's complaint is that we don't allow a variable of the query's own level, but AFAICT he's still not grasped the point that that leads to an indeterminate limit value ... regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org/