From: Stephan Szabo <sszabo@megazone.bigpanda.com>
To: Bret Hughes <bhughes@elevating.com>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: group by not returning sorted rows
Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2004 15:54:00 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <20040405154818.F18308@megazone.bigpanda.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1081202143.18380.117.camel@bretsony>
References: <1081202143.18380.117.camel@bretsony>
On Mon, 5 Apr 2004, Bret Hughes wrote:
> select cities.name as city, buildings.name as building,
> pagename,
> log_date ,
> sum(exhibition_count) as tot
> from logrecords
> join cities on (logrecords.city=cities.num)
> join buildings on (logrecords.building=buildings.num)
> where advertiser = 'Nielsens' and
> log_date >= '01/01/2004' and
> log_date <= '01/31/2004'
> group by cities.name, buildings.name,pagename,log_date ;
>
> I have migrated a database from a redhat 7.3 box running
> [bhughes@compaq3 reports]$ rpm -q postgresql
> postgresql-7.2.3-5.73
>
> To a redhat 9 box running :
> [bhughes@compaq2 reports]$ rpm -q postgresql
> postgresql-7.4.2-1PGDG
>
> and the rows resulting from the query are no longer sorted by log date.
> Is this a change since 7.2x?
Yes.
> I can achieve the results I need by adding an order by clause identical
> to the group by but this seems counter intuitive since the rows have to
> be ordered anyway.
They no longer need to always be pre-ordered in order to do the group by
(this depends on plan).
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