Re: Hey! ORDER BY in VIEWS? - Mailing list pgsql-sql

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: Hey! ORDER BY in VIEWS?
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Msg-id 200107161440.f6GEe8L06240@candle.pha.pa.us
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In response to Re: Hey! ORDER BY in VIEWS?  (Richard Huxton <dev@archonet.com>)
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> But - this gives them in reverse timestamp order. So - wrap the query in
> a view and then apply your own ORDER BY.
> 
> Can't remember who came up with this (some evil genius :-) - but it
> seemed to make sense so I stuck the example in my PostgreSQL notes.

We kept rejecting the idea of ORDER BY in a view until someone suggested
LIMIT and ORDER BY, at which point we had to enable it.  I think Tom did
the work.

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