Re: select issue with order v8.1

On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 10:30 PM, Scott Marlowe <scott.marlowe@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 8:50 PM, Terry <td3201@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I have an application that is doing something stupid in that it is
>> tacking on its own order clause at the end of the statement I am
>> providing.
>>
>> For example, I am putting this statement in:
>> select ev_id,type,ev_time,category,error,ev_text,userid,ex_long,client_ex_long,ex_text
>> from clients_event_log limit 100
>>
>> It is tacking on ORDER BY ev_id.  The problem is that isn't per the
>> syntax.  Can anyone think of anything clever to get around this stupid
>> application doing what it is doing?  For example, anything I can do
>> beside limit?
>>
>> I appreciate the thoughts!
>
> You could either wrap it in a subselect or make a view.
>
> select * from (select
> ev_id,type,ev_time,category,error,ev_text,userid,ex_long,client_ex_long,ex_text
> from clients_event_log limit 100) as a
>
> and an order by tacked on the end of that is ok.
>

This and the previous poster's advice both worked.  Thank you.
However, I am having another issue where the application is not
viewing a 'serial' data type as a number.  Clearly none of this is a
postgres issue.  Stupid programming.