You're trying to compare apples and oranges. Since the field is of type
text, it will sort by text. Therefore, the result will be 1 then 10 then
1a and so forth. It is sorting based on ASCII. The only way to get it to
sort in proper numerical order is to make the field a numeric field. But
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jeff MacDonald
Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2001 9:41 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [SQL] "correct" sorting.
Hi folks,
say i have a text field with teh values
1,2,3,10,20,30,1a,1b,2a,2b
and i want to sort it so i get,
1
1a
1b
2
2a
2b
3
10
20
30
is th
Hi folks,
say i have a text field with teh values
1,2,3,10,20,30,1a,1b,2a,2b
and i want to sort it so i get,
1
1a
1b
2
2a
2b
3
10
20
30
is there anyway to do that with postgresql ?
below is what actually happens.
jeff=> select * from foo order by var1;
var1
--
1
10
1a
1b
2
20
2a
