Re: Order by, expressions & column aliases issue

From: "John D(dot) Burger" <john(at)mitre(dot)org>
To: PostgreSQL-general general <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Order by, expressions & column aliases issue
Date: 2005-12-30 18:40:20
Message-ID: f1e7a55588421790aceb4d89f83d35da@mitre.org
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Jeff Trout wrote:

> This isn't terribly clear in the documentation.
>
> But it seems, in 8.0.3 and 8.1.1 that you cannot use a column alias in
> an order by if you are using an expression (ie order by
> my_column_alias <> 0 asc). If you use a plain asc/desc order by then
> it is fine (ie order by my_column_alias asc).

Yah - I ran into this a few months ago. Here's Tom's comments:

http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-general/2005-10/msg00208.php

- John Burger
MITRE

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