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From: Christoph Haller <ch@rodos.fzk.de>
Message-Id: <200205221401.QAA26812@rodos>
Subject: Re: Bug with ORDER BY expression [ ASC | DESC ] ? 
To: tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us (Tom Lane)
Date: Wed, 22 May 2002 16:01:01 METDST
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	from "Tom Lane" at May 22, 102 3:57 pm
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> 
> Christoph Haller <ch@rodos.fzk.de> writes:
> > select distinct on (o.sid,o.timepoint,o.lid,o.mid) o.sid,o.timepoint,o.lid,o.mid,o.value 
> > from onfvalue o, tempreftime t 
> > where o.sid=t.sid and o.timepoint=t.timepoint and o.lid=t.lid and o.mid=t.mid
> > order by o.sid,o.timepoint,o.lid,o.mid,o.entrancetime desc;
> 
> > but the result is coming in ascending order. 
> 
> Perhaps you meant to say
> 
> order by o.sid desc, o.timepoint desc, o.lid desc, o.mid desc, o.entrancetime desc;
> 
> 
Indeed. Thanks, Christoph