Re: Custom sort

From: Artacus <artacus(at)comcast(dot)net>
To: PostgreSQL <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Custom sort
Date: 2008-08-15 16:11:32
Message-ID: 48A5AAB4.80107@comcast.net
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>> Can you define a custom sort in postgres? For instance in mysql, you
>> could do something like (I forget the exact syntax)
>>
>> ORDER BY FIND_IN_SET(column_name, ('one','two','three'))
>>
>
> I don't really know this syntax but isn't it something like :
> ORDER BY column_name='one', column_name='two', column='three' ?

Thanks all. I'm not sure it's the best solution but,
here's what I ended up doing

ORDER BY strpos(column_name, 'One,Two,Three')

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