2009/3/31 Marcin Krol <mrkafk@xxxxxxxxx>: > Hello everyone, > > I'm having this completely weird problem that ORDER BY doesn't seem to work > correctly in PG 8.1 as bundled in RedHat 5. > > When I issue: > > SELECT * FROM virtualization; > > I get all the fields: > > reservations=# SELECT * FROM virtualization; > id | Virtualization | color > ----+-----------------+--------- > 1 | BOX | #FAFAFA > 2 | LPAR | #999999 > 3 | BOX ZONE HOST | #FAFAFA > 4 | NPAR | #9966CC > 5 | VPAR | #9966CC > > But when I try to order by column Virtualization: > > reservations=# SELECT * FROM virtualization ORDER BY Virtualization; > > ERROR: could not identify an ordering operator for type virtualization > HINT: Use an explicit ordering operator or modify the query. > > > The 'virtualization' table is just a normal table with VARCHAR column of > Virtualization: > > reservations=# \d virtualization > Table "public.virtualization" > Column | Type | Modifiers > ----------------+-------------------+------------------------------------------------------------- > id | integer | not null default > nextval('virtualization_id_seq'::regclass) > Virtualization | character varying | > color | character varying | > Indexes: > "virtualization_pkey" PRIMARY KEY, btree (id) > > > When I try to specify table.column I get this: > > reservations=# SELECT * FROM virtualization ORDER BY > virtualization.Virtualization; > ERROR: column virtualization.virtualization does not exist > > > > What's going on? > Try: SELECT * FROM virtualization ORDER BY virtualization."Virtualization"; >From the manual: "Quoting an identifier also makes it case-sensitive, whereas unquoted names are always folded to lower case" http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/interactive/sql-syntax-lexical.html#SQL-SYNTAX-IDENTIFIERS Osvaldo -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general