* Tom Lane (tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us) wrote:
> The reason for this behavior is that analyze.c attaches the CREATE TABLE
> AS aliases to the targetlist (via applyColumnNames) before it processes
> the ORDER BY clause. (So, "order by z2" works instead.) This seems
> like a bug: one would expect that the aliases do not change the
> semantics of the SELECT part of the command.
I'd tend to agree that it seems like a bug but I'm a little mystified as
to why an 'order by' would be desired (or allowed) for a 'create table as'
at all. Allowing it seems to imply it has some meaning.
Just my 2c,
Stephen