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.
On 2/16/21 1:41 PM, Dan Nessett wrote:
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.johns...@gmail.com <mailto:david.g.johns...@gmail.com>> wrote:
On Tuesday, February 16, 2021, Dan Nessett <dness...@yahoo.com
<mailto:dness...@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.
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