Different order by behaviour depending on where clause?

From: Jan Bakuwel <jan(dot)bakuwel(at)greenpeace(dot)org>
To: pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Different order by behaviour depending on where clause?
Date: 2011-10-28 04:53:36
Message-ID: 4EAA3550.7080609@greenpeace.org
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Hi,

I have a compound query with some grouping, having and order by's saved
as a view, say with name "myview".

A) select * from "myview" returns the results as expected in the correct
order (the order by is on fields "Category", "Year", "Month" and a few
other fields). The results are correctly ordered by these fields as
specified in the view.

B) select * from "myview" where "Year"=2011 and "Month"=1 also returns
the results as expected in the correct order (a subset of A).

however

C) select * from "myview" where "Year"=2011 and "Month" >= 1 and "Month"
<= 1 returns the same resultset as B but the order of the rows is not
correct (not even close; haven't been able to see any pattern).

Any idea how I can further analyse/diagnose this?

regards,
Jan

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