Thanks for what I hoped would be an easy solution. But this fails at
the onset of a check for the validity of the sql query. This is likely
to do with the CRUD front end that I am using (Kexi). I'll try this out
when I access pg directly.
So onto the next reply.
many thanks.
Anne
On Sat, Sep 14, 2013 at 08:19:01PM +0800, Jov wrote:
> what is the type of field？try order by shop_price::numeric.
> jov
> On Sep 14, 2013 8:06 PM, "Anne Wainwright" <anotheranne@fables.co.za> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I run a fairly simple query to show current records of stock using the
> > phrase 'sort by shop_price'.
> >
> > Surprise (but really no surprise) this is sorted in ascii order rather
> > than shop_price order. So 110.00 comes before 20.00
> >
> > I can't see any reference to changing this. What can I do, is this
> > perhaps to do with the field type, can it be changed?
> >
> > Thanks
> > Anne
> >
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