[wp-hackers] SELECT DISTINCT .... ORDER BY not working....

Kimmo Suominen kimmo at global-wire.fi
Mon Nov 19 22:01:02 GMT 2007


That's an interesting bug with MySQL.

This seems to produce the result wanted:

SELECT comment_post_id
FROM wp_comments
WHERE comment_approved = '1'
GROUP BY comment_post_id
ORDER BY MAX(comment_date) DESC

Best regards,
+ Kimmo
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On Mon, Nov 19, 2007 at 11:27:34PM +0200, Computer Guru wrote:
> Nope, not working....
> 
> Expected result:
> 
> 493
> 501
> 229
> 485
> ....
> 
> Actual result:
> 501
> 502
> 500
> 491
> ....
> 
> That's the same result I get w/ the original SELECT DISTINCT ... GROUP BY
> query in my OP.
> 
> 
> On 11/19/07, Aaron Brazell <emmensetech at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > This works for me...
> >
> > SELECT DISTINCT comment_post_id FROM wp_comments
> >   WHERE comment_approved = '1'
> > GROUP BY comment_id
> > ORDER BY comment_date DESC
> >
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> >
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> >
> > On Nov 19, 2007, at 4:18 PM, Computer Guru wrote:
> >
> > > SELECT DISTINCT comment_post_id FROM wp_comments
> > >   WHERE comment_approved = '1'
> > > ORDER BY comment_date DESC
> >
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