Can || be used in ORDER BY? - Mailing list pgsql-general

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I would like to do this:

                        select
                        field1,field2
                        from tablename
                        order by (field1||'-top')

ie. order the records by the contents of field1 with the text "-top"
concatenated to it.  It doesn't work, I get a parse error.

Can anyone offer advice?

Thanks.

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