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Kathey Marsden updated DERBY-3634:
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Derby Categories: [High Value Fix]
> Cannot use row_number() in ORDER BY clause
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> Key: DERBY-3634
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DERBY-3634
> Project: Derby
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: SQL
> Affects Versions: 10.4.1.3
> Reporter: Rick Hillegas
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> The following query works correctly:
> select abs(a), row_number() over ()
> from t
> where a > 100 and a < 111
> order by abs(a)
> I expected the following query to also work, but it raised an exception:
> select abs(a), row_number() over ()
> from t
> where a > 100 and a < 111
> order by row_number() over ()
> This is the error I saw: "ERROR 42X01: Syntax error: Encountered "over" at
> line 5, column 23".
> Here are the reasons why I think that this syntax is supposed to be supported:
> According to my reading of the 2003 SQL spec, the ORDER BY clause should be
> able to sort on any expression in the SELECT list. That includes OLAP
> expressions. I believe this is so because, according to part 2, section 10.10
> (<sort specification>), a <sort key> can be any <value expression> and if you
> follow the grammar for <value expression>, it can resolve to be a <value
> expression primary> (see section 6.3), which can in turn resolve to be a
> <window function>. This reasoning is supported by tracing the hotlinks on the
> following page which lays out the SQL 2003 BNF:
> http://savage.net.au/SQL/sql-2003-2.bnf.html This interpretation is further
> supported by the example of an ORDER BY clause referencing an OLAP expression
> which is provided on page 23 of the introduction to OLAP written by Fred
> Zemke, Krishna Kulkarni, Andy Witkowski, and Bob Lyle:
> www.cse.iitb.ac.in/dbms/Data/Papers-Other/SQL1999/OLAP-99-154r2.pdf
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