Tom, > No, because it's not a bug. The SELECT list is evaluated after HAVING, > so what you are asking for is an impossibility in the SQL semantic > model. > > (Yeah, I know there's some laxity in GROUP BY ... one of our worse > mistakes IMHO ...)
Oh. I see what you mean. Given that I (along with at least a dozen posters to the SQL list) was confused that our HAVING/ORDER BY will accept column aliases but not sub-select aliases, would this be worthy of a FAQ item? -- -Josh Berkus Aglio Database Solutions San Francisco ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly
