Terry <td3201@gmail.com> writes:
> I have an application that is doing something stupid in that it is
> tacking on its own order clause at the end of the statement I am
> providing.
> For example, I am putting this statement in:
> select ev_id,type,ev_time,category,error,ev_text,userid,ex_long,client_ex_long,ex_text
> from clients_event_log limit 100
> It is tacking on ORDER BY ev_id. The problem is that isn't per the
> syntax. Can anyone think of anything clever to get around this stupid
> application doing what it is doing? For example, anything I can do
> beside limit?
Hrm, fix the application?
You might be able to make a go out of something along the lines of
select ev_id,... from (select * from clients_event_log limit 100) as ss;
which would admit an ORDER BY on the end.
BTW, in most cases it doesn't make any sense to have a LIMIT without an
ORDER BY inside the subselect --- unless you really don't care which 100
rows you get.
regards, tom lane
