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From Tom Lane
Subject Re: 7.3.4 and 7.4 ORDER in queries
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Msg-id 1234.1070054254@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: 7.3.4 and 7.4 ORDER in queries  (Christopher Browne <cbbrowne@libertyrms.info>)
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Christopher Browne <cbbrowne@libertyrms.info> writes:
> I am quite surprised that the original poster got to expect an
> implicit "ORDER BY 1, 2".  That seems _quite_ surprising.

Pre-7.4, GROUP BY queries would tend to work like that, but it was
always an implementation artifact, never a documented much less
guaranteed behavior ...

            regards, tom lane

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