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* UNION & LIMIT & ORDER BY
@ 2003-06-14 17:01 Emmanuel Engelhart <emmanuel@engelhart.org>
  2003-06-16 19:37 ` Re: UNION & LIMIT & ORDER BY Guillaume LELARGE <gleu@wanadoo.fr>
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From: Emmanuel Engelhart @ 2003-06-14 17:01 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: pgsql-sql

Hi

Why this query doesn't work ?

<<
SELECT 
  '1' AS id 
FROM 
  users
ORDER BY id
LIMIT 1
UNION
SELECT 
  '2' AS id 
FROM 
  users
>>

And this one work ?

<<
SELECT 
  '1' AS id 
FROM 
  users
UNION
SELECT 
  '2' AS id 
FROM 
  users
ORDER BY id
LIMIT 1
>>

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* Re: UNION & LIMIT & ORDER BY
  2003-06-14 17:01 UNION & LIMIT & ORDER BY Emmanuel Engelhart <emmanuel@engelhart.org>
@ 2003-06-16 19:37 ` Guillaume LELARGE <gleu@wanadoo.fr>
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From: Guillaume LELARGE @ 2003-06-16 19:37 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: emmanuel@engelhart.org; +Cc: pgsql-sql

Hi,

Le Samedi 14 Juin 2003 17:01, Emmanuel Engelhart a écrit :
> [...]
Taken from the postgresql manual 
(http://www.postgresql.org/docs/view.php?version=7.3&idoc=0&file=sql-select.html#SQL-UNION):
ORDER BY and LIMIT can be attached to a sub-expression if it is enclosed in 
parentheses. Without parentheses, these clauses will be taken to apply to the 
result of the UNION, not to its right-hand input expression.


Regards.


-- 
Guillaume <!-- http://absfr.tuxfamily.org/ -->.



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