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Add "where possible" to the MAXREC section in acknowledgement of
the fact that not all output formats support overflow flagging.

Add a crossreference from the Overflow section back to the MAXREC
section.
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mbtaylor committed Mar 18, 2024
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enforce a limit on the value of MAXREC that is smaller than the value in the
request. If the size of the result exceeds the resulting limit, the service must
only return the requested number of rows. If the result set is truncated in this
fashion, it must include an overflow indicator as specified in Section \ref{sec:response-overflow}.
fashion, it must include an overflow indicator where possible as specified in Section \ref{sec:response-overflow}.

The service must support the special value of MAXREC=0. This value indicates
that, in the event of an otherwise valid request, a valid response be returned
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\verb|text/tab-separated-values| do not support indicating overflow.

In general, services may truncate the output results when reaching a limit. A default or
user-specified value of the MAXREC parameter is a common mechanism that causes truncation
user-specified value of the MAXREC parameter defined in Section \ref{sec:MAXREC}
is a common mechanism that causes truncation
of results, but service providers may also impose limits in services that do not use
MAXREC and indicate that the limit was reached with the overflow indicator.

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