Re: ORDER BY <field not in return list>

On Mon, Jul 25, 2005 at 06:11:08PM -0300, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
>
> Just curious as to whether or not a warning or something should be issued
> in a case like:
>
> SELECT c.*
> FROM company c, company_summary cs
> WHERE c.id = cs.id
> AND cs.detail = 'test'
> ORDER BY cs.fullname;
>
> Unless I'm missing something, the ORDER BY clause has no effect, but an
> EXPLAIN shows it does take extra time, obviously ...

Uh, I'd hope it had an effect. Note that RDBMSes have been moving
towards allowing fields in ORDER BY that aren't in the SELECT list,
though in the past it was common that anything in ORDER BY had to also
be in SELECT.
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