Re: Oder by not working - Mailing list pgsql-bugs

From Blanco, Jose
Subject Re: Oder by not working
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Msg-id E0217C87D1BA1043AC897ACFA468CEE60120BA47@ECLUST2-VS3.adsroot.itcs.umich.edu
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In response to Re: Oder by not working  ("Heikki Linnakangas" <heikki@enterprisedb.com>)
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So is there no way to make oder by work with names?=20

-----Original Message-----
From: Heikki Linnakangas [mailto:heikki@enterprisedb.com]=20
Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2008 3:00 AM
To: Blanco, Jose
Cc: pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [BUGS] Oder by not working

Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
> Unlike on some systems, in PostgreSQL "ORDER BY 1" means order by the=20
> constant value "1", not the first column. Try "ORDER BY name".

Oh, that's of course not correct at all. "ORDER BY 1" does indeed mean
order by first column. I don't know what I was thinking,

--=20
   Heikki Linnakangas
   EnterpriseDB   http://www.enterprisedb.com

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