At the least this sounds like an unfriendly error message:

postgres=# select 1 order by 1;
ERROR: could not find pathkey item to sort

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Gregory Stark
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Gregory Stark <stark@enterprisedb.com> writes:
> At the least this sounds like an unfriendly error message:

> postgres=# select 1 order by 1;
> ERROR: could not find pathkey item to sort

Definitely a bug, since it works in all existing releases.
Thanks for the report.

regards, tom lane

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