'order by' in an insert into command - Mailing list pgsql-general

I have the following insert to populate a new table:

insert into pending_tnmt_sec
select tseceventid, tsecsecno,
nextval('sec_seq'),
tsecrtddt
from tnmtsec
order by tsecrtddt,tseceventid,tsecsecno;

I need to access this data in a particular order which may change over
time but the initial order I want is in the order by clause.

The problem is, I'm not getting the data into the right order based
on the sequence values being inserted:

tsecrtddt        tseceventid   tsecsecno      seq

2004-08-30     | 20040731910 |         1 | 356270    ### out of sequence
2004-07-08     | 20040531897 |         2 | 360792
2004-06-03     | 20040425023 |         1 | 354394
2004-04-23     | 20040320702 |         1 | 353557
2004-02-18     | 20040117178 |         2 | 359387    ### out of sequence
2004-01-10     | 20031213418 |         1 | 351315

I can't tell whether this is because the order by clause in the insert
is being ignored or because the sequence is incrememted before the sort
takes place.  Is there a way to do this insert?
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Mike Nolan