Hi, Here's an easy patch for todays snapshot to sort the result of the public ResultSet getTables(String catalog, String schemaPattern, String tableNamePattern, String[] types) throws SQLException method: Compare: (<)J:\postgresql-snapshot\src\interfaces\jdbc\org\postgresql\jdbc2\DatabaseMetaData.java (89441 bytes) with: (>)J:\postgresql-snapshot\src\interfaces\jdbc\org\postgresql\jdbc2\DatabaseMetaData.java.orig (89415 bytes) 1669c1669 < sql.append("' order by relkind, relname"); --- > sql.append("'"); This is required by the JDBC spec: It says "They are ordered by TABLE_TYPE, TABLE_SCHEM and TABLE_NAME." <newbie> I was wondering while looking through the code why outer joins are not used for certain queries, e.g. in the getTables() method to get the comments for a particular table. </newbie> Cheers, Jeroen ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? http://www.postgresql.org/search.mpl