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From: Tim Landscheidt <tim@tim-landscheidt.de>
To: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Confused about writing this stored procedure/method.
Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2011 14:07:24 +0000
Message-ID: <m3zkiylx7n.fsf@passepartout.tim-landscheidt.de> (raw)
References: <1314023902196-4723656.post@n5.nabble.com>

(anonymous) wrote:

> [...]
> I intend pass the number of the month(say 1 for January , 2 for February
> etc>) as the parameter to this method and return a number that corresponds
> to the index of the month in the new order , say I pass 8 for August , I
> return 11 , in order to get the  index of August in he financial year
> calendar somewhat like this
> [...]

You don't need any function for that, just use "ORDER BY
Month < 4, Month".

Tim




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