From: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> |
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To: | Wei Weng <wweng(at)kencast(dot)com> |
Cc: | <pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: simulate union in subselect |
Date: | 2001-04-26 15:44:47 |
Message-ID: | Pine.LNX.4.30.0104261743360.758-100000@peter.localdomain |
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Wei Weng writes:
> I know this is not do-able, but is there any way to simulate the
> following in Postgresql 7.1?
>
> select id from
> (select id, recv_date as date from table1
> union
> select id, send_date as date from table2) AS subtable
> order by date;
I haven't actually tried whether this does not work, but ISTM that you
could simply do
select id, recv_date as date from table1
union
select id, send_date as date from table2
order by 2;
and ignore the second column when processing the result.
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Peter Eisentraut peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net http://funkturm.homeip.net/~peter
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