| From: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Richard Huxton <dev(at)archonet(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Hey! ORDER BY in VIEWS? |
| Date: | 2001-07-16 14:40:08 |
| Message-ID: | 200107161440.f6GEe8L06240@candle.pha.pa.us |
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> But - this gives them in reverse timestamp order. So - wrap the query in
> a view and then apply your own ORDER BY.
>
> Can't remember who came up with this (some evil genius :-) - but it
> seemed to make sense so I stuck the example in my PostgreSQL notes.
We kept rejecting the idea of ORDER BY in a view until someone suggested
LIMIT and ORDER BY, at which point we had to enable it. I think Tom did
the work.
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