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by rezoner 2613 days ago
How about UPDATE LIMIT 1 instead of fancy edge case features?
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I'm curious why you need this? As a safety mechanism?

You could just do a select with the limit then update that row from the primary key...

Sure, with a Turing compete system everything is a "you could just". It seems a lot easier to update limit 1 than to involve a subquery. If that is what GP meant it for, of course.
UPDATE LIMIT 1 is an edge case