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Is it possible to reduce the duplication in this simple query?

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I'm new to SQL and so this is probably a stupid question but can I reduce the duplication in this query? My actual query involves more complex expressions. Right now I'm just doing string concatenation from the language I'm using to generate the long query but I think there must be a way to do this with plain SQL?
select
  x + y as a,
  x + z as b,
  (x + y) / (x + z) as c
from
  integers
order by
  z + (x + y) / (x + z) desc
limit
  10;
What I'd like:
select
  x + y as a,
  x + z as b,
  a / b as c
from
  integers
order by
  z + c desc
limit
  10;

-- Fails with: Query Error: error: column "a" does not exist
Sample table:
create table integers as
select x, y, z
from
  generate_series(1, 10) x,
  generate_series(x, 10) y,
  generate_series(y, 10) z;
Fiddle: https://www.db-fiddle.com/f/u3cVh7QsafWNE6ELWhvBc1/0
Asked by user225326 (13 rep)
Mar 6, 2021, 01:50 PM
Last activity: Mar 7, 2021, 05:47 PM