Re: ORDER BY does not work as expected with multiple joins

From: Jaime Casanova <systemguards(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Adam Rosi-Kessel <adam(at)rosi-kessel(dot)org>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: ORDER BY does not work as expected with multiple joins
Date: 2006-01-13 16:20:11
Message-ID: c2d9e70e0601130820v22fc527bnefaf16b5dbd6d09a@mail.gmail.com
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On 1/13/06, Adam Rosi-Kessel <adam(at)rosi-kessel(dot)org> wrote:
> Tom Lane wrote:
> > Adam Rosi-Kessel <adam(at)rosi-kessel(dot)org> writes:
> >> I have a multijoin SELECT statement where the ORDER BY clause doesn't
> >> seem to be working.
> > You haven't mentioned your Postgres version, nor provided anywhere near
> > enough information to let other people reproduce the problem. You might
> > find it helpful to read this:
> > http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/static/bug-reporting.html
>
> Thanks. I didn't think this was a bug--I thought I had an error in my SELECT
> statement somehow. I certainly would have included more information with a
> bug report. (For the record, it is PostgreSQL 7.4 from Debian Sarge).
>

Tom's comment about this was, AFAICT, because you didn't show in the
first post OS version nor postgres version, you didn't show your own
results either (and that is a good start to try to see the reason of
your problem...

--
regards,
Jaime Casanova
(DBA: DataBase Aniquilator ;)

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