Re: Is it possible to make the order of output the same as the order of input parameters? - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Stephen Frost
Subject Re: Is it possible to make the order of output the same as the order of input parameters?
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Msg-id 20100602170255.GI21875@tamriel.snowman.net
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In response to Re: Is it possible to make the order of output the same as the order of input parameters?  (Tim Landscheidt <tim@tim-landscheidt.de>)
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* Tim Landscheidt (tim@tim-landscheidt.de) wrote:
> > Just thinking about it now; do SQL's semantics say it'll always do
> > the right thing?  PG does in a couple of quick tests (i.e. one where
> > customer is a small table and PG prefers a seqscan and where it's larger
> > and prefers an index scan) but I'm not sure if this could change.
>
> PostgreSQL's documentation on VALUES has at least no guaran-
> tee of the order of data. I'd prefer David's solution :-).

Uhm, that's why there's an explicit ORDER BY..  I seriously doubt that
would ever be violated.  If there was an approach suggested which didn't
include an ORDER BY *somewhere*, I'd be suspect of it.

    Thanks,

        Stephen

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