Re: Order by not working

Thanks to those who responded. I have solved my problem by noting the advice to use a select with order by. In particular, I need to export the data to a csv file anyway, so I use the following copy command:

COPY (SELECT household_name, family_list, street_address, city, state, zip, phone_list, email_list
FROM "household_data"
ORDER BY household_name
)
TO '/tmp/household_data.csv'
WITH (FORMAT CSV, HEADER);

This works.

Regards,

Dan

> On Feb 16, 2021, at 12:35 PM, David G. Johnston <david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
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> On Tuesday, February 16, 2021, Dan Nessett <dnessett(at)yahoo(dot)com <mailto:dnessett(at)yahoo(dot)com>> wrote:
> Thanks Peter. The listing of the result is from pg-admin 4.30 using view/edit data applied to the household_data table. In the past this has always returned the table contents in the ORDR BY sort order. Do I need to specify some preference in pg_admin to guarantee this?
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> pgAdmin4 might be keying off of the presence of an index, which this table doesn’t have.
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> David J.