In response to Guillaume Lelarge : > > This is the default behavior I want. However, I am not sure whether this is always guarantee? Or shall I explicitly make the query in the following form? > > An you're right. It's not guaranted. The only guaranted way is to use > ORDER BY your_column. ACK. One reason is the new feature 'synchronised scan' sind 8.3. It's a big performance boost, but engendered unsorted results. (if there is not the ORDER BY - statement) Regards, Andreas -- Andreas Kretschmer Kontakt: Heynitz: 035242/47150, D1: 0160/7141639 (mehr: -> Header) GnuPG: 0x31720C99, 1006 CCB4 A326 1D42 6431 2EB0 389D 1DC2 3172 0C99 -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general