Re: 7.3.4 and 7.4 ORDER in queries

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Christopher Browne <cbbrowne(at)libertyrms(dot)info>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: 7.3.4 and 7.4 ORDER in queries
Date: 2003-11-28 21:17:34
Message-ID: 1234.1070054254@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Christopher Browne <cbbrowne(at)libertyrms(dot)info> writes:
> I am quite surprised that the original poster got to expect an
> implicit "ORDER BY 1, 2". That seems _quite_ surprising.

Pre-7.4, GROUP BY queries would tend to work like that, but it was
always an implementation artifact, never a documented much less
guaranteed behavior ...

regards, tom lane

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