Unexpected behaviour of ORDER BY and LIMIT/OFFSET - Mailing list pgsql-novice

Hi all,

I'm having a problem with LIMITed queries, and I don't know is it me who
is doing something wrong or Postgres. (Probably me.)

When I browse through the list of employees:

id   id_dept  name
-------------------
1    1        Tom
2    1        Mike
3    2        Meggie
4    2        Marge
5    3        Bart
6    3        Lisa
7    4        Homer

using LIMITed selects like:

   SELECT * FROM employee ORDER BY id_dept LIMIT 3
   SELECT * FROM employee ORDER BY id_dept LIMIT 3 OFFSET 3
   SELECT * FROM employee ORDER BY id_dept LIMIT 3 OFFSET 6

it seems that Meggie is not in the result list on any of the SELECTs.
 From the first query I get Tom, Mike and Marge, and then from the
second Marge, Bart and Lisa.

Is this expected behavior?

My configuration is: CentOS 5.3 and Postgres 8.3.7.

Regards,
Ognjen