From: bricklen <bricklen@gmail.com>
To: emilu@encs.concordia.ca
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Show CAS, USD first; the left ordered by currency name
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2009 06:27:50 -0700
Message-ID: <33b743250907310627o637c1001v8e1a89060e053d76@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <pu1vnxkrs1.fsf@srv.protecting.net>
References: <4A71F9CB.9050805@encs.concordia.ca>
<pu1vnxkrs1.fsf@srv.protecting.net>
Alternatively,
...
ORDER BY (case when code in ('USD','CAD') then 0 else 1 end),code
On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 4:37 AM, Harald Fuchs<hari.fuchs@gmail.com> wrote:
> In article <4A71F9CB.9050805@encs.concordia.ca>,
> Emi Lu <emilu@encs.concordia.ca> writes:
>
>> 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
>> ...
>
> Probably the shortest solution is
>
> SELECT code, description
> FROM currency
> ORDER BY code != 'CAD', code != 'USD', code;
>
> BTW: your data are obsolete. Andorra has the Euro.
>
>
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