Hi all,
this could be trivial, but I found as an accident the following:
pgbench=> create table t as select v from generate_series( 1, 2 ) v;
SELECT 2
pgbench=> select * from t order by foo;
ERROR: column "foo" does not exist
LINE 1: select * from t order by foo;
^
pgbench=> select * from t order by t;
v
---
1
2
(2 rows)
The ORDER BY rejects non existent columns (right) but accepts the
table itself as an ordering expression.
Reading here <https://www.postgresql.org/docs/12/sql-select.html#SQL-ORDERBY>
I cannot really understand why it is working and which kind of
ordering it is applying at all, I suspect the same ordering as without
ORDER BY at all.
Any hint?
Just for the record, seems that supplying another table name is
rejected too, as I would expect:
pgbench=> select * from t order by pgbench_accounts;
ERROR: column "pgbench_accounts" does not exist
LINE 1: select * from t order by pgbench_accounts;
Thanks,
Luca
