Re: Select Distinct Order By Array_Position

> On Nov 26, 2018, at 12:12 PM, Mark Williams <[email protected]> wrote:
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> Hi,
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> I am getting an error “SELECT DISTINCT, ORDER BY expressions must appear in select list”. I am ordering by documents.id <http://documents.id/> and it appears in my select list. So I am guessing the problem lies with the array. Is there any way of achieving this? Query is below.
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> SELECT DISTINCT documents.id <http://documents.id/>, page_no FROM texts LEFT JOIN documents on documents.id <http://documents.id/>=texts.doc_id WHERE doc_id IN (26194, 2345, 189) AND  (text LIKE '%RIVER%') ORDER BY array_position(ARRAY[26194, 2345, 189]::INTEGER[], documents.id <http://documents.id/>)
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> Thanks,
>  
> Mark
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Try put the array_position clause in the select and add documents.id <http://documents.id/> to the order by?