From: Mario Splivalo <mario.splivalo@megafon.hr>
To: Mikel Lindsaar <raasdnil@gmail.com>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Ordering a name list and ignoring whitespace
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2009 13:02:44 +0200
Message-ID: <49E71054.1030607@megafon.hr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <57a815bf0904160351v7282fd00p7b7d9690ca48dcff@mail.gmail.com>
References: <57a815bf0904160351v7282fd00p7b7d9690ca48dcff@mail.gmail.com>
Mikel Lindsaar wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Doing some googling and looking through the docs, I can't find an
> obvious way to do this beside post processing after the query (which I
> am trying to avoid).
>
> I'm trying to select a list of names in alphabetical order but
> ignoring the whitespace.
>
> So for example, the name "La Combe" should come after "Lace" but
> before "Lacs..."
>
> Any ideas?
Could you do it like this:
SELECT
replace(name_column, ' ', '') AS name_replaced
FROM
your_table_name
ORDER BY
name_replaced
This can get a bit slowish if your table has quite a number of rows.
Mike
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