| From: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us |
| Cc: | Charles Albrecht <charlesa(at)pobox(dot)com>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Ordering 'A', 'B', ..., 'Z', 'AA', 'AB', ... |
| Date: | 2002-02-25 20:09:35 |
| Message-ID: | 200202252009.g1PK9ZX07998@candle.pha.pa.us |
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pgman wrote:
> > ORDER BY
> > CASE WHEN TABLE.MYCOLUMN LIKE '__'
> > THEN TABLE.MYCOLUMN
> > ELSE ' ' || TABLE.MYCOLUMN END
> >
> > The syntax may be a little different in pg, though.
> >
> > It's also easy enough to do in Perl with a custom sort sub.
>
> In PostgreSQL, you would need to create a column with the CASE, the
> order by that using the column number or AS to name the column and order
> on that name.
Sorry, I was wrong. You can use CASE in ORDER BY. I made a mistake in
my quick testing.
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