On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 01:34:04PM -0700, David Johnston wrote: > > If order is an implicit property of the source data then you need to > explicitly encode that order during (or before) import. Sure, but the problem the OP had I thought was that the RETURNING clause doesn't guarantee that the rows coming back are in the order they were inserted. This is just a SQL thing. (I guess you could ORDER BY the RETURNING clause, right?) > There are numerous > ways to implement such but except for extremely simple cases PostgreSQL will > not do the appropriate thing automatically in the face of concurrency. It _is_ doing the appropriate thing, though: this is SQL. The rows aren't ordered unless you tell them to be. A -- Andrew Sullivan ajs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
