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Commit 6334ef86 authored by Tom Lane's avatar Tom Lane
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Document that we don't support ORDER BY with general expressions on

the output of UNION/INTERSECT/EXCEPT.
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Postgres documentation
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<programlisting>
SELECT name FROM distributors ORDER BY code;
</programlisting>
A limitation of this feature is that an ORDER BY clause applying to the
result of a UNION, INTERSECT, or EXCEPT query may only specify an output
column name or number, not an expression.
</para>
<para>
Note that if an ORDER BY item is a simple name that matches both
a result column name and an input column name, ORDER BY will interpret
it as the result column name. This is the opposite of the choice that
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