Re: IN clause with more than 999 elements

From: andrewst <member14183_at_dbforums.com>
Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2003 04:51:52 -0400
Message-ID: <3393997.1064047912@dbforums.com>

Originally posted by Richard Kuhler

> andrewst wrote:

> <snip>

> > I mean, no one would seriously write SQL like that would
> they?

> Sure they would. Your ability to construct a sentence that makes this

> sound incredulous doesn't really provide a plausible argument against

> it. If I remember my critical thinking class properly, this is
> known as

> the "strawman" fallacy.

I don't think so: I believe the "strawman" fallacy would be to suggest that people are advocating doing a thing (e.g constructing IN lists with 1000+ elements) when in fact they do not mean that at all. Here we clearly ARE talking about constructing such IN lists, so it is a real, not straw, man I am up against.

But I agree that my incredulity is not in itself an argument against it.

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