From: Andreas Kretschmer <akretschmer@spamfence.net>
To: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Show CAS, USD first; the left ordered by currency name
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2009 22:05:29 +0200
Message-ID: <20090730200529.GA12697@tux> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4A71F9CB.9050805@encs.concordia.ca>
References: <4A71F9CB.9050805@encs.concordia.ca>
Emi Lu <emilu@encs.concordia.ca> wrote:
> Good morning,
>
> I have a currency table (code, description).
>
> Example values:
> ADF | Andorran Franc
> ... ...
> ANG | NL Antillian Guilder
> AON | Angolan New Kwanza
> AUD | Australian Dollar
> AWG | Aruban Florin
> BBD | Barbados Dollar
> USD | US Dollar
> CAD | Canadian Dollar
>
> Is there a way I can query to display USD AND CAD first, while other
> rows are ordered by Code.
>
> For example,
>
> CAS | Canadian Dollar
> USD | US Dollar
> ADF | Andorran Franc
> ...
>
Sure:
test=*# select * from currency order by case when code='USD' then 0 when
code = 'CAD' then 1 end, code;
code | description
------+----------------------
USD | US Dollar
CAD | Canadian Dollar
ADF | Andorran Franc
ANG | NL Antillian Guilder
AON | Angolan New Kwanza
AUD | Australian Dollar
AWG | Aruban Florin
BBD | Barbados Dollar
Andreas
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