order/aggregate thing is a general question. > > Yes. > > You can even do this with GROUP BY as long as the leading columns of the ORDER > BY inside the subquery exactly matches the GROUP BY columns. > > In theory we can't promise anything about future versions of Postgres but > there are lots of people doing this already so if ever this was lost there > would probably be some new explicit way to achieve the same thing. Does anyone have any spec links, oracle behavior, or whatever? For now I will trust Postgres to continue behaving sanely, but I am curious. Thx to Gregory for the quick reply > > -- > Gregory Stark > EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org/