Re: order by - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Adrian Klaver
Subject Re: order by
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Msg-id 0f2ae006-12a0-41d4-d41e-4b2cf6f4e744@aklaver.com
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In response to order by  (Marc Millas <marc.millas@mokadb.com>)
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On 5/11/23 07:29, Marc Millas wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I keep on investigating on the "death postgres" subject
> but open a new thread as I don't know if it's related to my pb.
> 
> I have 2 different clusters, on 2 different machines, one is prod, the 
> second test.
> Same data volumes.

How can they be sharing the same data 'volume'?

Do you mean you are doing dump/restore between them?

Postgres version for each cluster is?

> 
> On prod if I do
> select col_a, count(col_a) from table_a group by col_a order by col_a desc,
> I get the numbers of NULL on top.
> To get the number of NULL on top on the test db, I have to
> select col_a, count(col_a) from table_a group by col_a order by col_a asc.
> 
> so, it looks like there is something different within the b-tree 
> operator class of varchar (?!?)
> between those 2 clusters.
> 
> What can I check to to explain this difference as, to my understanding, 
> it's not a postgresql.conf parameter.
> 
> thanks
> 
> Marc MILLAS
> Senior Architect
> +33607850334
> www.mokadb.com <http://www.mokadb.com>
> 

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Adrian Klaver
adrian.klaver@aklaver.com




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