"Oliver Elphick" <olly@lfix.co.uk> writes:
> A view creates a virtual table; there is no implicit ordering in a table,
> so it follows that you should not be able to impose one in a view.
This is indeed the pure-SQL attitude, but it may be worth pointing out
that Postgres 7.1 does allow ORDER BY in subselects and views anyway.
The main reason that that seems like a good idea (IMHO at least) is that
ORDER BY together with LIMIT allow you to select specific rows in ways
that are difficult to accomplish otherwise.
regards, tom lane