> Is there any way to mimic the oracle way of subselect, especially
> constructs like
>
>
> select * from (select col1 as x, col2, col6 from t1 union select col2
> as x, col6, col2 from t2) y order by y.x
>
Works fine as written in version 7.1 and above. See
http://www.postgresql.org/idocs/index.php?queries.html#QUERIES-FROM
test=# select version(); version
-------------------------------------------------------------------PostgreSQL 7.1 on i686-pc-linux-gnu, compiled by GCC
egcs-2.91.66
(1 row)
test=# select * from (select col1 as x, col2, col6 from t1 union select col2
as x, col6, col2 from t2) y order by y.x;x | col2 | col6
---+------+------1 | 1 | 12 | 2 | 23 | 3 | 34 | 4 | 4
(4 rows)
-- Joe
