Re: sort question - Mailing list pgsql-jdbc

From Peter Eisentraut
Subject Re: sort question
Date
Msg-id 200312161900.25944.peter_e@gmx.net
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In response to sort question  (Glenn Holmer <gholmer@weycogroup.com>)
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Glenn Holmer wrote:
> I don't know if this is a JDBC thing or not,

It is not.

> select distinct style, color, width, size from skiddata
> where skidno = 'F3932' order by style, color, width, size;
>
> I get the sizes in order '10 ', '10-', '11 ', '12 ', ' 9 ',
> ' 9-'.  Shouldn't ' 9 ' and ' 9-' come first?  Have I got
> something set up wrong in Postgres?

Text fields are sorted textually.  If you want a numeric sort, use a
numeric data type.


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