If it was literally the way the data went in, you should be able to order by
oid. Alternatively,
SELECT * FROM tablename ORDER BY substring (text(num) from 1 for 2);
should do it.
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Moray.McConnachie@computing-services.oxford.ac.uk
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tim Johnson" <tim@celestialdesign.co.uk>
To: <pgsql-sql@postgresql.org>
Sent: Thursday, April 20, 2000 2:28 AM
Subject: [SQL] Re: GROUPING and ORDERING and CONFUSION
> Hello,
>
> I was hoping somebody might be able to help me do this: I have a table
with
> two fields (num int, name text)
>
> num | name
> ----------------------------------------------
> 15 | First Category Heading
> 1510 | first category subheading
> 1511 | second category subheading
> 1560 | spurious category subheading
> 156010| first spurious category subheading
> 156011| second spurious category subheading
> 16 | Second Category Heading
> 1610 | Second category subheading
> 161010| Second category subheading subheading
>
> and so on...
>
> My problem is I want to pull that data out and group it so that it comes
out
> just the way it went in.. So my page can read:
>
> 15: First Category Heading
> 1510: first category subheading
> 1511: second category subheading
> 16: ... and so on..
>
>
>
> I thought I could probably group by num on the first two digits and order
by
> asc? but I can't find a way to make that work.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
>
> Tim Johnson
>
>