Re: ORDER BY what?

Try to give a alias of the value and order by the alias:

select count(spotted_gene_id) as bbb from spot_nav_simple group by
spotted_gene_id order by bbb desc limit 10;

Hope this is what you ask for.

"Martn Marqus" <martin(at)bugs(dot)unl(dot)edu(dot)ar> wrote in message
news:01061111193103(dot)29653(at)bugs(dot)(dot)(dot)
> I have a quite complex select query on postgres (obviously :-) ) using PHP
> (which is not the problem at the moment) which has some text searches
using
> LIKE.
> My question is: "How can I write an ORDER BY statment so that it's ordered
by
> the amount of matches it gets?"
> Is this posible without getting ichy with the programing?
>
> Saludos.... :-)
>
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