From: Bruno Wolff III <bruno@wolff.to>
To: Gary Stainburn <gary.stainburn@ringways.co.uk>
To: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: numerical sort on mixed alpha/numeric data
Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2003 11:54:56 -0500
Message-ID: <20030716165456.GE1263@wolff.to> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030716164106.GC1263@wolff.to>
References: <200307161248.26835.gary.stainburn@ringways.co.uk>
<20030716164106.GC1263@wolff.to>
On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 11:41:06 -0500,
Bruno Wolff III <bruno@wolff.to> wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 12:48:26 +0100,
> Gary Stainburn <gary.stainburn@ringways.co.uk> wrote:
> > Hi folks,
> >
> > I've got a table holding loco numbers and an id which references the locos
> > table. How can I sort this table, so that numeric values appear first in
> > numerical order followed by alpha in alpha order.?
>
> You can first sort by whether or not a pattern match succeeds. You haven't
> said whether or not the empty string is a number or an alpha and that will
> affect the choice of pattern.
>
> For example:
> select * from lumbers order by lumber !~ '^[0-9]+$', lumber;
I missed the need for numeric ordering for the numbers. The CASE solution
someone else suggested seems to answer your question though.
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