Re: serial

From: Grzegorz Jaśkiewicz <gryzman(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: "Thomas Kellerer" <spam_eater(at)gmx(dot)net>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: serial
Date: 2008-12-05 09:42:27
Message-ID: 2f4958ff0812050142u21a34f6dodb4411bf80579c2d@mail.gmail.com
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On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 8:24 AM, Thomas Kellerer <spam_eater(at)gmx(dot)net> wrote:
> Scott Marlowe, 04.12.2008 16:34:
>>
>> Like an Oracle DBA who told me
>> pgsql was broken because the output of group by wasn't properly
>> ordered like it was on Oracle 9.
>
> Then he did not know Oracle very well :)
> Even Oracle 9 does not guarantee that the output of an GROUP BY is actually
> sorted, with Oracle 10 this has just gotton more "obvious" because the
> grouping strategies were enhanced.
>
yeah, that sounds merely like his short experience, or by-product of
the way GROUP BY was implemented in some particular version of oracle
9, not a guaranteed outcome. Poor guy... he probably still lives on
thinking that oracle is so good because of those little 'things' :)

--
GJ

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