From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: ogjunk-pgjedan@yahoo.com
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Order by YYYY MM DD in reverse chrono order trouble
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 09:01:20 -0400
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<ogjunk-pgjedan@yahoo.com> writes:
> I'd love to be able to do that, but I cannot just ORDER BY uu.add_date,
> because I do not have uu.add_date in the SELECT part of the statement.
Sure you can. Back around SQL89 there was a restriction that ORDER BY
values had to appear in the SELECT list as well, but no modern database
has such a restriction anymore ...
regards, tom lane
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