PostgreSQL - retrieving items in order they were stored

Question

Folks, I have the following table:

CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS users(
 userid           CHAR(100)         NOT NULL,
 assetid          text              NOT NULL,
         


        

Answer 1

Assuming your date column holds different timestamps for each item, by using the ORDER BY clause:

SELECT * FROM users WHERE userid=foo ORDER BY "date";

However, if you inserted a large number of records in a single transaction, the date column value will probably be the same for all of them - if so, there is no way to tell which was inserted first (from the information given).