Re: Sort question - Fractions, Metric etc

From: Adrian Klaver <adrian(dot)klaver(at)aklaver(dot)com>
To: Bret Stern <bret_stern(at)machinemanagement(dot)com>, pgsql-general(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Sort question - Fractions, Metric etc
Date: 2021-08-14 16:21:21
Message-ID: 24d005b3-47a4-3f78-450e-d394b9e47d6f@aklaver.com
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On 8/14/21 9:14 AM, Bret Stern wrote:
> I have a table with metric, imperial, fraction columns.
>
> Is there a way to sort correctly using imperial (eg; .125, .375, .437 ->
> 1., 1.125)

Alright how is this different from metric or fraction?

I can sort of see fraction if you mean as 1/3, 1/20, etc.

What is the data type of the field you are storing this in?

>
> Couldn't handle it with ORDER BY ASC, DESC args so I added a sort_column
> and sorted based
>
> on those values eg; 1,2,3,4,5,6 indicating the value I need to show in
> which sequence.
>
>
> Just curious what the pro's do
>
> Bret
>
>
>

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