Re: How many columns can I have in an ORDER BY clause? - Mailing list pgsql-novice

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: How many columns can I have in an ORDER BY clause?
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Msg-id 11015.1267147792@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to How many columns can I have in an ORDER BY clause?  (Mary Anderson <maryfran@demog.berkeley.edu>)
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Mary Anderson <maryfran@demog.berkeley.edu> writes:
>      I have a query that has an ORDER BY clause that appears to break.

Define "break".  What output did you get and what did you expect to get?

> It has 12 or 13 columns.  Have I exceeded postgresql's sorting capacity?

Certainly not.

            regards, tom lane

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