diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 537d21e15..00d7bf716 100755
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ $Source$
 2002-10-21 Marc Delisle  <lem9@users.sourceforge.net>
     * lang/spanish: removed control M
     * tbl_relation.php3, bug 619100, relation and non-primary key
+    * libraries/display_tbl.lib.ph3, bug 619097, order by sum(var)
 
 2002-10-19 Alexander M. Turek  <rabus@users.sourceforge.net>
     * translators.html, spanish-*.inc.php3: Updates, thanks again to
diff --git a/libraries/display_tbl.lib.php3 b/libraries/display_tbl.lib.php3
index c4bf8f3c7..15e76f7b3 100644
--- a/libraries/display_tbl.lib.php3
+++ b/libraries/display_tbl.lib.php3
@@ -575,7 +575,12 @@ if (!defined('PMA_DISPLAY_TBL_LIB_INCLUDED')) {
                 if (empty($sql_order)) {
                     $is_in_sort = FALSE;
                 } else {
-                    $is_in_sort = eregi('[[:space:]](`?)' . str_replace('\\', '\\\\', $fields_meta[$i]->name) . '(`?)[ ,$]', $sql_order);
+                    //$is_in_sort = eregi('[[:space:]](`?)' . str_replace('\\', '\\\\', $fields_meta[$i]->name) . '(`?)[ ,$]', $sql_order);
+                    $pattern = str_replace('\\', '\\\\', $fields_meta[$i]->name);
+                    $pattern = str_replace('(','\(', $pattern);
+                    $pattern = str_replace(')','\)', $pattern);
+                    $is_in_sort = eregi('[[:space:]](`?)' . $pattern . '(`?)[ ,$]', $sql_order);
+           
                 }
                 // 2.1.3 Checks if the table name is required (it's the case
                 //       for a query with a "JOIN" statement and if the column