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Alicia Ying Shu updated PHOENIX-1749:
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    Attachment: PHOENIX-1749.patch

> ORDER BY should support column position as well as column alias
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>                 Key: PHOENIX-1749
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PHOENIX-1749
>             Project: Phoenix
>          Issue Type: Bug
>            Reporter: Serhiy Bilousov
>            Assignee: Alicia Ying Shu
>         Attachments: PHOENIX-1749.patch
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> In postgreSQL (and many others DBs) you can specify not only column name for 
> the ORDER BY but column number (position in SELECT part) as well as column 
> alias.
> see:
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.4/static/queries-order.html
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.4/static/sql-select.html#SQL-GROUPBY
> Adding such support would be very helpful and sometimes necessary.
> I can provide real queries example if required but basically we want 
> something like this
> given query
> SELECT a, b, TRUNC(current_date(),'HOUR') AS date_truncated FROM table 
> we want 
> ORDER BY 1 ASC, 2 DESC
> ORDER BY date_truncated 
> Having just column number would cover both but having column alias would make 
> queries more readable and human friendly. Plus make it one little stem closer 
> to postgreSQL and SQL standard.



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