Thanks to those who responded. I have solved my problem by noting the advice to use a select with order by. In particular, I need to export the data to a csv file anyway, so I use the following copy command:
COPY (SELECT household_name, family_list, street_address, city, state, zip, phone_list, email_list
FROM "household_data"
ORDER BY household_name
)
TO '/tmp/household_data.csv'
WITH (FORMAT CSV, HEADER);
This works.
Regards,
Dan
On Tuesday, February 16, 2021, Dan Nessett <
dnessett@yahoo.com> wrote:
Thanks Peter. The listing of the result is from pg-admin 4.30 using view/edit data applied to the household_data table. In the past this has always returned the table contents in the ORDR BY sort order. Do I need to specify some preference in pg_admin to guarantee this?
pgAdmin4 might be keying off of the presence of an index, which this table doesn’t have.
David J.