Re: Order by not working

SQL is only intuitive to people who've done programming... :)

Also, since your table names are only composed of lower case and underscores, the double quotes are not needed.

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 Feb 16, 2021, at 12:35 PM, David G. Johnston <david.g.johnston@gmail.com> wrote:

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.