Re: Order in CREATE VIEW - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Oliver Elphick
Subject Re: Order in CREATE VIEW
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Msg-id 200104140840.f3E8eWU16731@linda.lfix.co.uk
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In response to Re: Order in CREATE VIEW  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Tom Lane wrote:
  >"Oliver Elphick" <olly@lfix.co.uk> writes:
  >> A view creates a virtual table; there is no implicit ordering in a table,
  >> so it follows that you should not be able to impose one in a view.
  >
  >This is indeed the pure-SQL attitude, but it may be worth pointing out
  >that Postgres 7.1 does allow ORDER BY in subselects and views anyway.

I see I was out of date. Sorry!

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