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Re: Issue with adding ORDER BY to EXCEPT.

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On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 12:42:47PM -0500, Scott Marlowe wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-06-07 at 12:16, Jaime Casanova wrote:
> > I suppose this is because the columns in the except are the same that
> > the ones in the main select and the order by get confused.
> > 
> > i'm redirecting to hackers to know if this is a known bug or there is
> > something wrong in the select? i don't see anything wrong!!
> 
> No, it's because to the order by, the column names are the ones given by
> the part after the period of the first select.  If you do a plain select
> UNION select with no order by, you'll see the title for the columns is
> taken from the first select list column names.
> 
> So, the order by needs to be "order by encounter_id, encounter_d_id

Or even easier:

order by 1, 2;

Then you don't even need to know the column names...
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