Andrew Dunstan <and...@dunslane.net> wrote: > It's likely to be used by SQL generators if nothing else, and I've > been known to use it as a very convenient shorthand. It would seem > to me like quite a strange inconsistency to allow order by n with > some qualifiers but not others. That's pretty much how I feel. Like SELECT * or an INSERT without a target column list, I wouldn't want to see it used in production, but it saves time when hacking around in a development database or running ad hoc queries. If we didn't support it, the inconsistency would be odd, and we would need to document it as a deviation from the standard. -Kevin
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