Re: timestamp group by bug??? - Mailing list pgsql-novice

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: timestamp group by bug???
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Msg-id 467.1111427812@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to timestamp group by bug???  ("Celia McInnis" <celia@drmath.ca>)
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"Celia McInnis" <celia@drmath.ca> writes:
> Help - I'm not sure if this is a bug, but I wouldn't call it a feature! :-)

Hardly a bug ... you told it to order by a textual value, why
would you expect a non-alphabetical sort ordering?

I would suggest ordering by EXTRACT(DOW FROM mytimestamp).
You'll probably have to list that as a second GROUP BY item in order
to make Postgres happy with the query.

            regards, tom lane

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