Re: Very odd order by behavior - followup - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Mitch Vincent
Subject Re: Very odd order by behavior - followup
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Msg-id 005701c08f28$d751f3f0$0200000a@windows
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In response to Very odd order by behavior  ("Mitch Vincent" <mitch@venux.net>)
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I found the problem. User error, it's been a long Sunday.

Sorry!

-Mitch

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mitch Vincent" <mitch@venux.net>
To: <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Sent: Sunday, February 04, 2001 11:00 PM
Subject: Very odd order by behavior


> FreeBSD 4.2, PostgreSQL 7.0.3
>
> The attached file is the schema and data to the app_degrees table. Now
check
> this out :
>
> select * from app_degrees gives (expected) :
>
>  degree_id |  abbr  |               description
> -----------+--------+------------------------------------------
>       1818 | ACC    | Accounting [ACC]
>       1819 | ACD    | Acoustics [ACD]
>       1820 | ADV    | Advertising [ADV]
>
> select * from app_degrees order by abbr ASC gives :
>
>  degree_id |  abbr  |               description
> -----------+--------+------------------------------------------
>       1818 | ACC    | Accounting [ACC]
>       1818 | ACC    | Accounting [ACC]
>       1819 | ACD    | Acoustics [ACD]
>       1819 | ACD    | Acoustics [ACD]
>       1820 | ADV    | Advertising [ADV]
>       1820 | ADV    | Advertising [ADV]
>
> Either I'm seeing double or something isn't right here :-)
>
> Thanks for any insights.
>
> -Mitch
>
>
>



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