On Sat, 17 May 2003, Andreas Schmitz wrote:
> Terry Yapt wrote:
>
> >www=> SELECT 10 AS first ORDER BY COALESCE(first,0) DESC;
> >ERROR: Attribute "first" not found
> >
> >Thanks in advance..
> >
> >
> Perhaps, this is a bug, but I have a workarround for you till this is
> clariefied:
Just an unimplemented enhancement I think. At least in SQL92, order
by expressions need to be column references (possibly with collation
conversions), we allow some functional order by expressions, but not one's
referencing select aliases I think.
