Re: sort by on two columns - Mailing list pgsql-sql

From Adam Ruth
Subject Re: sort by on two columns
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In response to Re: sort by on two columns  (Michael Glaesemann <grzm@myrealbox.com>)
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Sounds like you may want to concatenate the columns:

... order by table1.name || table2.name

The sorting would then be performed on both of the them as though they 
were one column.

Adam Ruth

On Jan 2, 2004, at 8:04 PM, Michael Glaesemann wrote:

>
> On Jan 2, 2004, at 8:55 PM, Andy Lewis wrote:
>> Yes, I understand this but, I would like to have the results of both
>> "table1.name, table2.name"
>> sorted as one column.
>>
>> Is this possible?
>
> So you want one column of name, including names from both table1 and 
> table2? In that case, you need to use UNION, I believe. If it's 
> something else, I'm not sure I understand what you're asking. Perhaps 
> you could include a sample of what you're getting, along with what 
> you'd like to see?
>
> Michael Glaesemann
> grzm myrealbox com
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