Here's an easy patch for todays snapshot to sort the result of the

public ResultSet getTables(String catalog, String schemaPattern, String

Jeroen van Vianen

src/interfaces/jdbc/org/postgresql/jdbc2/DatabaseMetaData.java

@@ -1666,7 +1666,7 @@ public class DatabaseMetaData implements java.sql.DatabaseMetaData
     // Now take the pattern into account
     sql.append(") and relname like '");
     sql.append(tableNamePattern.toLowerCase());
-    sql.append("'");
+    sql.append("' order by relkind, relname");
 
     // Now run the query
     r = connection.ExecSQL(sql.toString());