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Supporting the OFFSET clause

The following list shows which engines support the OFFSET clause and which don't:

MariaDB: Supported since 5.1
MySQL: Supported since 4.0.6
PostgreSQL: Supported since PostgreSQL 6.5
SQLite: Supported since version 2.1.0
Db2 LUW: Supported since version 11.1
Oracle: Supported since version 12c
Microsoft SQL Server: Supported since 2012

As you can see, limiting result sets is quite tricky and, when you are porting a commercial database to PostgreSQL, you will most likely always be confronted with some proprietary syntax.

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