Thanks to those who responded. I have solved my problem by noting the advice to
use a select with order by. In particular, I need to export the data to a csv
file anyway, so I use the following copy command:
COPY (SELECT household_name, family_list, street_address, city, state, zip,
phone_list, email_list
FROM "household_data"
ORDER BY household_name
)
TO '/tmp/household_data.csv'
WITH (FORMAT CSV, HEADER);
This works.
Regards,
Dan
> On Feb 16, 2021, at 12:35 PM, David G. Johnston <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>
> On Tuesday, February 16, 2021, Dan Nessett <[email protected]
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> Thanks Peter. The listing of the result is from pg-admin 4.30 using view/edit
> data applied to the household_data table. In the past this has always
> returned the table contents in the ORDR BY sort order. Do I need to specify
> some preference in pg_admin to guarantee this?
>
> pgAdmin4 might be keying off of the presence of an index, which this table
> doesn’t have.
>
> David J.
