Subject Re: [firebird-support] how to combine a field value while their id is same?
Author Mark Rotteveel
On Sun, 23 Oct 2011 21:23:20 -0500, Gordon Niessen <gordon@...>
wrote:
>> The following query should work:
>> SELECT f1, LIST(f2) FROM table GROUP BY f1
>>
>> Be aware that there is no defined order for the result of LIST.
>>
> If you use distinct, it will order the list. But you can't get 1 aa,
> aa, bb. So no duplicates.
>
> select f1, LIST(DISTINCT f2) from table group by f1

As far as I know that the result of LIST(DISTINCT ...) is ordered is only
an implementation detail, so it shouldn't be something you depend on.