Re: Sorting distinct dates by year and month respectively

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: "Matt Arnilo S(dot) Baluyos (Mailing Lists)" <matt(dot)baluyos(dot)lists(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-novice(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Sorting distinct dates by year and month respectively
Date: 2006-06-07 14:56:20
Message-ID: 29995.1149692180@sss.pgh.pa.us
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"Matt Arnilo S. Baluyos (Mailing Lists)" <matt(dot)baluyos(dot)lists(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> ... ORDER BY date_part('year', article_pubdate),
> date_part('month', article_pubdate) DESC;

The above means

... ORDER BY date_part('year', article_pubdate) ASC,
date_part('month', article_pubdate) DESC;

You want

... ORDER BY date_part('year', article_pubdate) DESC,
date_part('month', article_pubdate) DESC;

As noted by the other respondent, sorting on one date_trunc column is
probably the better way to do it, but I thought I'd point out the DESC
issue anyway. A lot of people get that wrong.

regards, tom lane

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