From: | Adam Ruth <aruth(at)intercation(dot)com> |
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To: | Michael Glaesemann <grzm(at)myrealbox(dot)com> |
Cc: | "Andy Lewis" <jumboc(at)comcast(dot)net>, <pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: sort by on two columns |
Date: | 2004-01-03 04:32:51 |
Message-ID: | E473BEC6-3DA5-11D8-89B7-000A959D1424@intercation.com |
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Sounds like you may want to concatenate the columns:
... order by table1.name || table2.name
The sorting would then be performed on both of the them as though they
were one column.
Adam Ruth
On Jan 2, 2004, at 8:04 PM, Michael Glaesemann wrote:
>
> On Jan 2, 2004, at 8:55 PM, Andy Lewis wrote:
>> Yes, I understand this but, I would like to have the results of both
>> "table1.name, table2.name"
>> sorted as one column.
>>
>> Is this possible?
>
> So you want one column of name, including names from both table1 and
> table2? In that case, you need to use UNION, I believe. If it's
> something else, I'm not sure I understand what you're asking. Perhaps
> you could include a sample of what you're getting, along with what
> you'd like to see?
>
> Michael Glaesemann
> grzm myrealbox com
>
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