Re: [GENERAL] Sorting a table...

From: Ed Loehr <ELOEHR(at)austin(dot)rr(dot)com>
To: Jesse Scott <jscott(at)bmi(dot)net>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Sorting a table...
Date: 1999-11-30 17:05:46
Message-ID: 384403EA.5D3784A9@austin.rr.com
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I think you're looking for the 'ORDER BY' clause to use in your SELECT, e.g.,

SELECT * FROM person ORDER BY id

More examples, options, and explanation can be found at

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/postgres/sql-select.htm

Cheers.
Ed Loehr

Jesse Scott wrote:

> ... Once the user has completed the
> editing, I perform an UPDATE on that row with the new values, but now that
> row is moved to the end of the table, making the page that lists the users
> list them out of order (one of the fields is a sequential ID number). Is
> there anyway to do a "sort by" or something similar? Or do I need to set
> the ID number to be some sort of index type?

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