Re: delete from table limit @var; is not working

Sergei Golubchik <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.db.mysql.bugs
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi!

On Apr 28, "qwerq qerq"  wrote:
> The following command:
> delete from table limit @var; 
> says syntax error... why?
> -- Server version	4.0.17-max-debug

Because the manual specifies the syntax as:

     DELETE [LOW_PRIORITY] [QUICK] [IGNORE] FROM tbl_name
            [WHERE where_definition]
            [ORDER BY ...]
            [LIMIT row_count]

It does not say  LIMIT expr, so expressions are not allowed -
you can have only integer literals in LIMIT clause.
 
Regards,
Sergei

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