Re: "order by" weirdness

From: Dipankar Chakrabarti <dipanc(at)yahoo(dot)com>
To: pgsql-sql(at)hub(dot)org
Subject: Re: "order by" weirdness
Date: 1999-09-27 07:52:32
Message-ID: 19990927075232.4435.rocketmail@web117.yahoomail.com
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>Hello,

Dear Hein,

What are you trying to do with order by max(date)?

Order by date will give proper result. For that
matter group by clause already does ordering, no need
to put a order by there.

Regards,

Dipankar

>consider these three statements:
>
>create table t (id integer, date datetime ) ;
>select id from t group by id ;
>select id from t group by id order by max(date) ;
>
>Is it correct behavior that the second select returns
>one row where

>as the first select returns zero rows?

>Thanks in advance for any help,
>Hein

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