Re: INSERT/SELECT with ORDER BY

Dirk Lutzebäck <lutzeb@aeccom.com>

From: Dirk Lutzebaeck <lutzeb@aeccom.com>
To: pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org
Cc: Stephan Szabo <sszabo@megazone23.bigpanda.com>
Date: 2001-03-29T08:55:09Z
Lists: pgsql-bugs
Stephan Szabo writes:
 > 
 > Unless I'm horribly misreading the spec, this is correct.  
 > ORDER BY is used in reference to cursor definitions and
 > direct select statements, but is not part of query expressions
 > which is what the INSERT INTO references.
 > 
 >          <insert statement> ::=
 >               INSERT INTO <table name>
 >                 <insert columns and source>
 > 
 >          <insert columns and source> ::=
 >                 [ <left paren> <insert column list> <right paren> ]
 >               <query expression>
 >               | DEFAULT VALUES
 > 
 >          <insert column list> ::= <column name list>
 > 
 > But, this may be a useful extension to allow, at least with the
 > existance of LIMIT.
 > 
 > Stephan Szabo
 > sszabo@bigpanda.com
 > 
 > On Thu, 17 Aug 2000, Bob Rivoir wrote:
 > > 
 > > Please enter a FULL description of your problem:
 > > ------------------------------------------------
 > > I got the following error message when I tried to do an INSERT using
 > > SELECT ... ORDER BY:
 > > 
 > > ERROR:  ORDER BY is not allowed in INSERT/SELECT


Is 7.1 able to do INSERT/SELECT with ORDER BY and LIMIT ?

Dirk