Re: Fwd: SELECT MAX with char => BUG?

Rodrigo Carvalhaes wrote:
> Hi !
>
> I am quite confused of the results on a SELECT max...
>
> My environment: Conectiva Linux 10, PostgreSQL 7.4.6 (compiled from
> the sources)
>
> My problem is the "select max(id) FROM test" the result is 20 but the
> right is 1020. Is this a BUG or I am crazy ??

Crazy. And posting to the wrong list - try the general/sql lists for
this sort of thing.

> teste=# CREATE TABLE test ( id char(15), name char(80) ); CREATE

You've defined "id" as char - so it's sorting alphabetically, not
numerically, so 1111 < 2

Just defined "id" as a numeric type.

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Richard Huxton
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