OK I believe that..
But why does order by work on a "name" column but not a "char(10)" column. See my earlier (posted later because of problems) e-mail. Lorne In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 12/26/04 at 02:16 PM, Michael Fuhr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >On Sun, Dec 26, 2004 at 02:57:08PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> So what is difference between a "name" and a char(10)??? >See the "Character Types" section in the "Data Types" chapter of the >documentation. >"The name type exists _only_ for storage of identifiers in the internal >system catalogs and is not intended for use by the general user." -- ----------------------------------------------------------- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org