| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | "Daniel J(dot) Kressin" <dkressin(at)globalcrossing(dot)com> |
| Cc: | pgsql-general(at)postgreSQL(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: sorting on inet type? |
| Date: | 2001-03-20 18:07:28 |
| Message-ID: | 11694.985111648@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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"Daniel J. Kressin" <dkressin(at)globalcrossing(dot)com> writes:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> host(ip) produces a text result, so the above sort is according to
>> string-comparison rules. If you want a numeric sort why don't
>> you just "ORDER BY ip"?
> "ORDER BY ip" didn't work. I'm assuming this is the broken behaviour
> that Larry mentioned is fixed in 7.1.
Ah. Sorry, I tried it in current sources to verify that it produced
the sort order you wanted ... but I forgot that we'd done some work
on inet since 7.0.*.
regards, tom lane
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