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-rw-r--r--includes/database/select.inc4
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/includes/database/select.inc b/includes/database/select.inc
index 3b9643b1e..1dc4dc723 100644
--- a/includes/database/select.inc
+++ b/includes/database/select.inc
@@ -1355,6 +1355,10 @@ class SelectQuery extends Query implements SelectQueryInterface {
}
// RANGE
+ // There is no universal SQL standard for handling range or limit clauses.
+ // Fortunately, all core-supported databases use the same range syntax.
+ // Databases that need a different syntax can override this method and
+ // do whatever alternate logic they need to.
if (!empty($this->range)) {
$query .= "\nLIMIT " . $this->range['length'] . " OFFSET " . $this->range['start'];
}