Hi David,
Ordering can never be assumed in SQL. If you want a particular order then you need an order by.
Hope that hopes!
Jason
> On Apr 19, 2014, at 1:19 AM, Elías David <elias.moreno.tec@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> By any change, does the following query have an "order by" by default when omitted?:
>
> select datname from pg_database;
>
> I know you could pass and ORDER BY datname or similar but what I don't know is if by default there's some kind of
sortwhen the order by is omitted.
>
> I executed that query against one of my servers and while looking at the names it seems complety random, the order is
alwaysthe same, for instance:
>
> web2
> template0
> asdf
> basic
> postgres
> web3
> .....
>
> Does anybody know?
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> --
> Elías David.
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