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Re-formating LIMIT destroys DELETE and UPDATE queries

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Assessment

Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
48/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Clearly specified
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
mysql, php, sql
Domain
database

Research direction

Start by reproducing the issue with the Parser constructor and statement->build() example shown in the report, then trace how LIMIT is built for DELETE and UPDATE statements. The issue names no file or test; done means rebuilt DELETE and UPDATE queries retain valid LIMIT syntax while SELECT behavior remains correct.

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Description

bug

When building queries, the LIMIT is re-formatted. For example SELECT * FROM tbl LIMIT 1 is changed to SELECT * FROM tbl LIMIT 0, 1. This works just fine for SELECT queries, but not for DELETE or UPDATE queries.

Example:

$query1 = "DELETE FROM a LIMIT 1";
$parser = new PhpMyAdmin\SqlParser\Parser($query1);
$statement = $parser->statements[0];

$table2 = new \PhpMyAdmin\SqlParser\Components\Expression("", "b", "", "");
$statement->from[0] = $table2;

echo $statement->build();

results in

DELETE  FROM `b` LIMIT 0, 1

The changed query fails, while the original query is perfect SQL.

Dominant language
PHP
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