[jira] Commented: (DERBY-4) "order by" is not supported for "insert ... select"

["Knut Anders Hatlen (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

    [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DERBY-4?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=12678264#action_12678264 ] 

Knut Anders Hatlen commented on DERBY-4:
----------------------------------------

It might be worth checking if SQL 2008 allows ORDER BY in INSERT INTO
... SELECT FROM ... . Dag wrote the following in DERBY-4079:

> Note that both ORDER BY and the new clauses above are allowed also in
> subqueries in the new version of the SQL standard (section 7.13). I
> only propose to include this at the top level in DERBY for now. (ORDER
> BY is presently also not allowed in subqueries in Derby since SQL
> didn't allow for this until SQL 2008 either).

> "order by" is not supported for "insert ... select"
> ---------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: DERBY-4
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DERBY-4
>             Project: Derby
>          Issue Type: New Feature
>          Components: SQL
>            Reporter: Christian d'Heureuse
>            Priority: Minor
>         Attachments: insertOrderBy.diff, insertOrderBy_v2.diff, insertOrderBy_v3.diff, samples.ij, samples.ij
>
>
> When filling a table with "insert ... select ...", "order by" cannot be specified.
> There is not method to copy a table sorted into another table (except using export/import). This would be useful to optimize performance for big tables, or to create identity values that are ascending (related to another column).
> Example:
> create table temp1 (
>    s varchar(10));
> insert into temp1 values 'x','a','c','b','a';
> create table temp2 (
>    i integer not null
>       generated always as identity
>       primary key,
>    s varchar(10));
> insert into temp2 (s)
>    select s from temp1 order by s;
> --> Error: "order by" is not allowed.
> -- trying to use "group by" instead of "oder by":
> insert into temp2 (s)
>    select s from temp1 group by s;
> select * from temp2;
> --> "group by" did not sort the table.

-- 
This message is automatically generated by JIRA.
-
You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online.