I totally agree with you and the problem is gonna be fixed. I just needed a 
temporary solution until the patch goes out. 

Thank you,
Ioana

--- On Wed, 3/2/11, Tom Lane <[email protected]> wrote:

> From: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [GENERAL] select DISTINCT not ordering the returned rows
> To: "Ioana Danes" <[email protected]>
> Cc: "PostgreSQL General" <[email protected]>
> Received: Wednesday, March 2, 2011, 3:44 PM
> Ioana Danes <[email protected]>
> writes:
> > I upgraded postgres from 8.3 to 9.0.3 and I have an
> issue with the order of the returned rows. 
> 
> Your application is simply broken if it assumes that
> DISTINCT results in
> ordering the rows.  The only thing that guarantees
> that is an ORDER BY.
> 
> You could probably work around it for the short term by
> unsetting
> enable_hashagg, but you really ought to fix the query
> instead.
> 
>            
> regards, tom lane
> 
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