[postgis-devel] Small regression test updates

Sandro Santilli strk at keybit.net
Wed Oct 20 01:31:04 PDT 2010


On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 10:33:30AM +0200, Andreas 'ads' Scherbaum wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Am 20.07.2011 08:23, schrieb Sandro Santilli:
> >On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 10:25:29PM +0200, Andreas 'ads' Scherbaum wrote:
> >
> >>Attached you can find a small patch which adds "order by 1" in some
> >>of the regression tests, and also changes the output order in some
> >>of the .expected files. The data itself is not changed. The patch
> >>works with PostgreSQL 9.04 and PostGIS 1.5.3.
> >
> >Wouldn't it be safer, at that point, to order by a real column ?
> 
> The SQL standard allows numbers for the columns.

I know, but how does that give an actually predictable order ?
Isn't this just exploiting a PostgreSQL implementation detail ?

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