Thread: Re: : Postgres order by into a RECORD, not ordering

RESOLVED.

It must be a bug in 7.3
I resolved the problem, by changing the FOR IN statement to FOR IN EXECUTE.
By changing the Statement into a string, it accommodated for the ORDER BY.

Thanks for all your responses.

Kind Regards,
Shaun Clements

-----Original Message-----
From: Shaun Clements
Sent: 01 April 2005 12:22 PM
To: 'Richard Huxton'
Cc: PostgreSQL General
Subject: RE: : [GENERAL] Postgres order by into a RECORD, not ordering

Hi Again.

I hope you can explain this.
I have a stored procedure which does a query of a table using order by, into a RECORD.
The statement I mentioned earlier, is a FOR  IN.
the data stored into the RECORD, is not ordered by the columns specified, because when I loop through the record, the columns returned in the row are different, to when I manually do a Select query using order by.

I assumed this may have something to do with the index.

Is there any reason why this is so ?

Kind Regards,
Shaun Clements

On Fri, Apr 01, 2005 at 12:36:53PM +0200, Shaun Clements wrote:
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> RESOLVED.
>
> It must be a bug in 7.3

Before reaching that conclusion, let's see what you were doing.

> I resolved the problem, by changing the FOR IN statement to FOR IN EXECUTE.
> By changing the Statement into a string, it accommodated for the ORDER BY.

Could you post the code that didn't work and the code that does
work?  There might be a better solution than what you did.  In any
case, it's good to understand *why* something doesn't work, so if
you post the code then maybe somebody can explain what's wrong.

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