Intersect and order by

Started by Michaël Fieyabout 25 years ago3 messagesgeneral
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#1Michaël Fiey
m.fiey@futuresoundtech.com

Hi,

I don't understand what's happening with my command
I read postgresql docs, it should work...What's the problem ?
The command is :

select col1
from table
where <conditions 1>
intersect
select col1
from table
where <conditions 2>
order by col1

It does not work and return "get_sortgroupclause_expr: ORDER/GROUP BY
expression not found in targetlist"

I use pgsql 7.03 ont redhat 7.0.

Any help would be appreciated

michael

#2Tom Lane
tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us
In reply to: Michaël Fiey (#1)
Re: Intersect and order by

=?iso-8859-1?Q?Micha=EBl_Fiey?= <m.fiey@futuresoundtech.com> writes:

It does not work and return "get_sortgroupclause_expr: ORDER/GROUP BY
expression not found in targetlist"

Just one of the many bugs in our old UNION/INTERSECT/EXCEPT code :-(

It's fixed for 7.1.

regards, tom lane

#3Michael Fork
mfork@toledolink.com
In reply to: Michaël Fiey (#1)
Re: Intersect and order by

Either of these should fix your problem:

SELECT col1 as my_col
FROM table
WHERE <conditions 1>
INTERSECT
SELECT col1 as my_col
FROM table
WHERE <conditions 2>
ORDER BY my_col

- OR -

SELECT col1
FROM table
WHERE <conditions 1>
INTERSECT
SELECT col1
FROM table
WHERE <conditions 2>
ORDER BY 1
^^^
Ordinal value of field to order by

To use UNION/INTERSECT/EXCEPT with ORDER BY, you must order by the ordinal
value of the field or by the aliased field name.

Michael Fork - CCNA - MCP - A+
Network Support - Toledo Internet Access - Toledo Ohio

On Wed, 28 Feb 2001, [iso-8859-1] Micha���l Fiey wrote:

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Hi,

I don't understand what's happening with my command
I read postgresql docs, it should work...What's the problem ?
The command is :

select col1
from table
where <conditions 1>
intersect
select col1
from table
where <conditions 2>
order by col1

It does not work and return "get_sortgroupclause_expr: ORDER/GROUP BY
expression not found in targetlist"

I use pgsql 7.03 ont redhat 7.0.

Any help would be appreciated

michael