What is the meaning of 
        
        group by 1 order by 2

e.g. what to the numbers 1 and 2 stand for?

What would change if I do the following?

        group by 1 order by 1

On Apr 30, 2011, at 5:48 PM, Thomas Markus wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> try something like this:
> 
> select
>    trunc(random() * 10.)/10.
>    , count(*)
> from
>    generate_series(1,2000000)
> group by 1 order by 2

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