Re: Selecting tree data

["Pat Maddox" <pergesu(at)gmail(dot)com>]

On 10/26/07, brian <brian(at)zijn-digital(dot)com> wrote:
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> Pat Maddox wrote:
> > On 10/26/07, brian <brian(at)zijn-digital(dot)com> wrote:
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> >>SELECT * FROM posts ORDER BY root_id, id;
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> >>brian
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> > Okay, but what if I want to order by created_at?
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> > btw created_at is a timestamp, I just wrote '4pm' to make it a bit
> > easier to read.
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> SELECT * FROM posts ORDER BY created_a, root_id, id;

That doesn't work because it just sorts by created_at, and then if two
records are the same it goes to root_id.  That's not what I want.

Pat