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Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2005 08:33:30 -0600
From: Michael Fuhr <mike@fuhr.org>
To: Russell Simpkins <russellsimpkins@hotmail.com>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: ORDER records based on parameters in IN clause
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On Wed, Jun 29, 2005 at 10:22:07AM -0400, Russell Simpkins wrote:
>
> fair enough. but a simple order by id would never work.

I didn't mean to imply that it would -- I meant only that
ORDER BY <something> is necessary to guarantee a particular
row order.

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Michael Fuhr
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