Re: [GENERAL] sorting by date & time in descending order ?? - Mailing list pgsql-general

On Tue, 30 Mar 1999, Ralf Weidemann wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I want to sort my output by date & time in descending
> order. How can I do this ? Date or time alone is not
> enough and the combination of both does not work. At
> least in the way I tried it..
>
> Thanks,
> Ralf
>
> ...
>
> wdb=> select surname, creationdate, creationtime
>        from message order by creationdate, creationtime desc;
> surname             |creationdate|creationtime
> --------------------+------------+------------
> Name_3              |  22.03.1999|06:02:55
> Name_2              |  29.03.1999|09:10:04
> Name_1              |  30.03.1999|14:46:17
> Name_2              |  30.03.1999|14:05:47
> Name_2              |  30.03.1999|10:10:04
> Name_2              |  30.03.1999|09:10:04
> (6 rows)
>
this orders creationdate asc and creationtime desc as the output also shows,
so try:

select surname, creationdate, creationtime
  from message order by creationdate desc, creationtime desc;

this should work.

            Lajos