Re: Does anybody use ORDER BY x USING y? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Martijn van Oosterhout
Subject Re: Does anybody use ORDER BY x USING y?
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Msg-id 20050918205035.GF31394@svana.org
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In response to Re: Does anybody use ORDER BY x USING y?  ("John Hansen" <john@geeknet.com.au>)
Responses Re: Does anybody use ORDER BY x USING y?
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On Mon, Sep 19, 2005 at 06:26:10AM +1000, John Hansen wrote:
> I was actually of the impression that that was exacty what it was for:
> specifying what op(class) to use for the sort in case you wanted to use
> a non-default opclass for the type, and/or if the less-than operator
> wasn't called '<'.

That's my thought. However, the code doesn't seem to restrict you to
that so I was wondering if there was any other use out there that we
should consider supporting...
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