From: Mathieu Arnold <mat@mat.cc>
To: Joel Burton <joel@joelburton.com>
To: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: order by <something wierd>
Date: Tue, 14 May 2002 14:28:57 +0200
Message-ID: <1716030471.1021386536@andromede.reaumur.absolight.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <JGEPJNMCKODMDHGOBKDNKEBACOAA.joel@joelburton.com>
References: <JGEPJNMCKODMDHGOBKDNKEBACOAA.joel@joelburton.com>
--On mardi 14 mai 2002 08:05 -0400 Joel Burton <joel@joelburton.com> wrote:
> You're asking to have it be sorted as {2,1,3}, but the sample result data
> you give seems to sort by {1,2,3}. Or am I misunderstanding your question?
you're right, I messed up my example :)
I'll buy the second solution, it's the easier to put on.
> 2) inlined in sql
>
> SELECT * FROM a
> ORDER BY CASE WHEN col3=2 THEN 1
> WHEN col3=1 THEN 2
> ELSE 3
> END;
--
Mathieu Arnold
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