Re: ORDER BY - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Marc G. Fournier
Subject Re: ORDER BY
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Msg-id 20050725190658.F54567@svr1.postgresql.org
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In response to ORDER BY  ("Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@postgresql.org>)
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On Mon, 25 Jul 2005, Jeffrey W. Baker wrote:

> On Mon, 2005-07-25 at 18:11 -0300, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
>> Just curious as to whether or not a warning or something should be issued
>> in a case like:
>>
>>    SELECT c.*
>>      FROM company c, company_summary cs
>>     WHERE c.id = cs.id
>>       AND cs.detail = 'test'
>> ORDER BY cs.fullname;
>
> Seems like it should work.  Is it not returning in fullname order in
> your tests?

Full name isn't a field in the results, so how would it be ORDERing based 
on it?  fullname is a field in the table being joined in order to restrict 
the results to just those with cs.detail = 'test' ... but company itself 
doesn't have a field fullname ...



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