Re: Formatting Functions and Group By

Thank you both for your responses. That's just what I needed.... and thanks for catching my
mistake Tom. And may I say that I am VERY happy to be moving to Postgres. The lack of a native
Win32 version was thing only thing holding us back from Postgres previously.
I think this is the only kind of query I will have had difficulty porting. I'm looking forward to
ditching MySQL and never looking back!! :)

--- Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:

>
> Ah, good ol' MySQL :-( ... let the user do what he wants whether the
> result is well defined or not ...
>
> I'd suggest doing the grouping/ordering numerically rather than
> textually. For instance,
>
> select
> to_char(date_trunc('month', myCol), 'Mon YY')
> from
> myTable
> group by
> date_trunc('month', myCol)
> order by
> date_trunc('month', myCol);
>
> Now this assumes you really want a time-based ordering, which the quoted
> example doesn't give --- you've got month sorting to the left of year,
> is that really what you want? If it is then you'd need to go
>
> group by
> date_trunc('month', myCol)
> order by
> to_char(date_trunc('month', myCol), 'MM YYYY')
>
> regards, tom lane

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