Re: Sort order confusion

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)dcc(dot)uchile(dot)cl>
To: Stephen Robert Norris <srn(at)commsecure(dot)com(dot)au>
Cc: Steve Crawford <scrawford(at)pinpointresearch(dot)com>, pgsql-general <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Sort order confusion
Date: 2004-02-06 01:01:06
Message-ID: 20040206010105.GA3990@dcc.uchile.cl
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On Fri, Feb 06, 2004 at 11:21:41AM +1100, Stephen Robert Norris wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-02-06 at 11:12, Steve Crawford wrote:
> > I am suffering some sort order confusion. Given a database, "foo",
> > with a single character(4) column of data left padded with spaces I
> > get:
> >
> > select * from foo order by somechars;

Cast it:

alvherre=> select * from foo order by bar::text::int;
bar
------
0
1
10
33
100
101
333
503
(8 filas)

--
Alvaro Herrera (<alvherre[a]dcc.uchile.cl>)
"La naturaleza, tan frágil, tan expuesta a la muerte... y tan viva"

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