Re: Case in Order By Ignored without warning or error

David:

On Thu, Jun 9, 2016 at 5:15 PM, David G. Johnston
<david.g.johnston@gmail.com> wrote:
> I think its a fair characterization to call "sorting on a constant" as
> "doing nothing" or "not useful".  There is no noticeable difference between
> that and omitting the constant.

Yes, but in that context I wanted to point it was correctly parsing
and evaluating the expression and comparing the result ( the optimizer
may have zapped it, but this is transparent to the user ).


Francisco Olarte.