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Re: [PORTS] RedHat6.0 & Alpha

Peter Galbavy <peter.galbavy@knowledge.com> — 1999-07-23T13:46:44Z

On Fri, Jul 23, 1999 at 07:26:03AM -0400, Uncle George wrote:
> Thanks,
>     But I think that a computer has no right to any "damn order" it
> wants to, particular if its the same src & test facilities.
> gat

Thomas' reply is quite correct. Unless you specify an order, the
underlying system (maybe not even postgresql, but the OS and libraries
it uses) may sort and return comparisons in any order, but always a
consistent order.

The fact that an i386 and an alpha processor based systems return
results differently should be of no suprise. You must explicitly
specify "ORDER BY xxx" in a query, and even then you need to know your
collation sequences etc.

Regards,
-- 
Peter Galbavy
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