From: | Bob Dusek <bobd(at)palaver(dot)net> |
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To: | Ralf Weidemann <RalfW(at)Scalar(dot)DE> |
Cc: | PGSQL-GENERAL-ML <pgsql-general(at)postgreSQL(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: [GENERAL] sorting by date & time in descending order ?? |
Date: | 1999-07-06 23:55:19 |
Message-ID: | 37829767.13102812@palaver.net |
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Hi Ralph,
Did you try:
select surname, creationdate, creationtime from message order by
creationdate desc, creationtime desc;
??
It appears that all of your other queries are working as expected.
Bob
Ralf Weidemann wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I want to sort my output by date & time in descending
> order. How can I do this ? Date or time alone is not
> enough and the combination of both does not work. At
> least in the way I tried it..
>
> Thanks,
> Ralf
>
> wdb=> select surname, creationdate, creationtime
> from message order by creationtime desc;
> surname |creationdate|creationtime
> --------------------+------------+------------
> Name_1 | 30.03.1999|14:46:17
> Name_2 | 30.03.1999|14:05:47
> Name_2 | 30.03.1999|10:10:04
> Name_2 | 29.03.1999|09:10:04
> Name_2 | 30.03.1999|09:10:04
> Name_3 | 22.03.1999|06:02:55
> (6 rows)
>
> wdb=> select surname, creationdate, creationtime
> from message order by creationdate desc;
> surname |creationdate|creationtime
> --------------------+------------+------------
> Name_2 | 30.03.1999|14:05:47
> Name_2 | 30.03.1999|10:10:04
> Name_1 | 30.03.1999|14:46:17
> Name_2 | 30.03.1999|09:10:04
> Name_2 | 29.03.1999|09:10:04
> Name_3 | 22.03.1999|06:02:55
> (6 rows)
>
> wdb=> select surname, creationdate, creationtime
> from message order by creationdate, creationtime desc;
> surname |creationdate|creationtime
> --------------------+------------+------------
> Name_3 | 22.03.1999|06:02:55
> Name_2 | 29.03.1999|09:10:04
> Name_1 | 30.03.1999|14:46:17
> Name_2 | 30.03.1999|14:05:47
> Name_2 | 30.03.1999|10:10:04
> Name_2 | 30.03.1999|09:10:04
> (6 rows)
>
> CREATE TABLE Message
> (
> MessageID SMALLINT NOT NULL,
> Title CHAR(20) NOT NULL,
> Surname CHAR(50) NOT NULL,
> EMail CHAR(100),
> MessageURL CHAR(100),
> Text VARCHAR NOT NULL,
> CreationDate DATE NOT NULL,
> CreationTime TIME NOT NULL,
> Expiry SMALLINT NOT NULL
> );
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