From: Gavin Flower <GavinFlower@archidevsys.co.nz>
To: Enzen user <anushka.achaiah@enzentech.com>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: sorting months according to fiscal year
Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2011 11:58:15 +1200
Message-ID: <4E52ED17.9070204@archidevsys.co.nz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1314019633187-4723409.post@n5.nabble.com>
References: <1314019633187-4723409.post@n5.nabble.com>
On 23/08/11 01:27, Enzen user wrote:
> Hi
> I have to rearrange the months according to the fiscal year i.e from April
> to march and use the same in the order by clause of a query.
> I have written the following postgresql function for the same, but to_number
> is returning an error.
> Can you please tell me where i'm going wrong?
> Instead of the function to_number can you suggest any other function that
> will convert a particular month to its corresponding month number(ex:
> april=4 or jan=1)
>
>
> CREATE FUNCTION sort_month(to_number('April','MM')) RETURNS numeric AS $$
> DECLARE
>
> BEGIN
>
> CASE WHEN 4 THEN 1
> WHEN 5 THEN 2
> WHEN 6 THEN 3
> WHEN 7 THEN 4
> WHEN 8 THEN 5
> WHEN 9 THEN 6
> WHEN 10 THEN 7
> WHEN 11 THEN 8
> WHEN 12 THEN 9
> WHEN 1 THEN 10
> WHEN 2 THEN 11
> WHEN 3 THEN 12
> ELSE 0
> END;
>
>
>
> $$ LANGUAGE plpgsql;
>
>
>
> --
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>
You might find the following faster...
DROP FUNCTION IF EXISTS
sort_mont
(
to_number int
) ;
CREATE FUNCTION
sort_mont
(
to_number int
)
RETURNS numeric
LANGUAGE plpgsql
AS
$$
BEGIN
RETURN 1 + (to_number + 8) % 12;
END;
$$;
SELECT sort_mont(1);
SELECT sort_mont(12);
/// output..
gavin=> \i modulus_stored_proc.sql
DROP FUNCTION
CREATE FUNCTION
sort_mont
-----------
10
(1 row)
sort_mont
-----------
9
(1 row)
gavin=>
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