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Subject: Re: [SQL] Sort problem
From: Jean-Luc Lachance <jllachan () nsd ! ca>
Date: 2002-02-26 16:41:32
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Tom,
You are right about the ORDER BY CLAUSE, but the parser should be able
to rewrite the query so that I do not have to retype the whole thing...
Tom Lane wrote:
>
> Jean-Luc Lachance <jllachan@nsd.ca> writes:
> > Can someone (Tom maybe) please tell me why one can not use an alias from
> > the select list in the where clause or the order by clause.
>
> Eh? You can do it in the ORDER BY clause:
>
> regression=# select f1 as alias from int4_tbl order by alias;
> alias
> -------------
> -2147483647
> -2147483647
> -123456
> -123456
> 0
> 0
> 123456
> 123456
> 2147483647
> 2147483647
> (10 rows)
>
> As for WHERE, the reason you can't do it there is that it wouldn't be
> meaningful. The SELECT list is not calculated until *after* the WHERE
> conditions are applied. Any SQL book should tell you about the stages
> of processing of a SELECT query...
>
> regards, tom lane
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