ORDER BY coalesce(x, 0): there is no x

I was reading Markus Winand’s latest post on ORDER BY history last week. If you haven’t read it yet, go read it. Markus is one of the best writers on SQL standards, and this post is no exception. One line stopped me cold. The compatibility table for “expressions on selected columns.” Postgres: parti…

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