Received: from maia.hub.org (unknown [200.46.204.183]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E73AE6339A3 for ; Mon, 6 Jul 2009 22:55:47 -0300 (ADT) Received: from mail.postgresql.org ([200.46.204.86]) by maia.hub.org (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.183]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 74186-07 for ; Mon, 6 Jul 2009 22:55:44 -0300 (ADT) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.6 Received: from sss.pgh.pa.us (sss.pgh.pa.us [66.207.139.130]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F279E63304B for ; Mon, 6 Jul 2009 22:55:44 -0300 (ADT) Received: from sss2.sss.pgh.pa.us (tgl@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by sss.pgh.pa.us (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id n671tZJ4025602; Mon, 6 Jul 2009 21:55:35 -0400 (EDT) To: Andreas Joseph Krogh cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org Subject: Re: Order of "WITH RECURSIVE" output In-reply-to: <200907070344.36084.andreak@officenet.no> References: <200907070344.36084.andreak@officenet.no> Comments: In-reply-to Andreas Joseph Krogh message dated "Tue, 07 Jul 2009 03:44:35 +0200" Date: Mon, 06 Jul 2009 21:55:35 -0400 Message-ID: <25601.1246931735@sss.pgh.pa.us> From: Tom Lane X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0 tagged_above=0 required=5 tests=none X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 200907/19 X-Sequence-Number: 32760 Andreas Joseph Krogh writes: > If I omit "ORDER BY", is the output *guaranteed* (according to some > standard) to be ordered No. It's not necessary to read any other details to answer that ... regards, tom lane