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From: "Tomasz Myrta" <jasiek@klaster.net>
To: Gary Stainburn <gary.stainburn@ringways.co.uk>,
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Subject: Re: sort / limit / range problem
Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2003 15:47:24 +0800
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> Hi folks,
> 
> I've got a glossary table that I'm trying to render to HTML. 
>  However, I've got a problem when using order by and limit.  Below 
> is an example of  a psql session showing my problem. Anyone got any 
> reasons why the last select misses  'Driver'?
> 

Everything is ok. Without order by, limit has undeterminated result. It is 
described in Postgresql documentation.

Try this:

select glterm from glossary where glterm > 'Driving Wheels' 
order by glterm limit 1

select glterm from glossary where glterm > 'Draw Bar'
order by glterm limit 1

Regards,
Tomasz Myrta