"Andrew Sullivan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Tue, Jul 17, 2007 at 09:40:21AM -0600, Stuart wrote: > > is not really structually important -- it is a value that > > exists soley for the UI. > > Hmm. Maybe you should use generate_series() for the UI instead? It > would always give you the order you like, you could use the universal > sequence or whatever for your ORDER BY clause, and not store data > that you actually don't care about.
Except that the value does matter outside of the database and thus needs to be remembered. It is not used for ordering at all. ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
