Re: [HACKERS] More on Order by

2004-12-26 Thread lsunley
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,

Re: [HACKERS] More on Order by

2004-12-26 Thread Michael Fuhr
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 catalog

[HACKERS] More on Order by

2004-12-26 Thread lsunley
Hi All I have discovered that when I use a table like this create table whois (acol name); and insert a few rows, the order by clause works correctly. I dug into the database init stuff to find that the table pg_class column relname is where the pg_tables column tablename comes from. That colum