Re: CREATE TABLE AS and ORDER BY

"Joy Chuang" <hxc0850@omega.uta.edu> wrote in message
news:3A7F5AF9.B23DF42F@omega.uta.edu...
> Hi,
>
> I tried to use CREATE TABLE AS and ORDER BY.  The query is as followed:
>
> create table freshhr21 as
> select e.studentid, u.hoursxfer
> from enrollmentstatus e, undergradclass u
> where e.studentid = u.studentid and e.classtd = '1'
> order by u.hoursxfer
>
> But, it returns error message "ERROR:  parser: parse error at or near
> "order"".  Does "create table as" support "order by" inside of it?
>
> I am using PostgreSQL 6.5.3.

When you CREATE TABLEs you don't say anything about ordering.  I should say
it doesn't matter what the order is.  When you SELECT from the table you can
use ORDER BY.