On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 8:24 AM, Thomas Kellerer <spam_eater@xxxxxxx> wrote: > Scott Marlowe, 04.12.2008 16:34: >> >> Like an Oracle DBA who told me >> pgsql was broken because the output of group by wasn't properly >> ordered like it was on Oracle 9. > > Then he did not know Oracle very well :) > Even Oracle 9 does not guarantee that the output of an GROUP BY is actually > sorted, with Oracle 10 this has just gotton more "obvious" because the > grouping strategies were enhanced. > yeah, that sounds merely like his short experience, or by-product of the way GROUP BY was implemented in some particular version of oracle 9, not a guaranteed outcome. Poor guy... he probably still lives on thinking that oracle is so good because of those little 'things' :) -- GJ -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
