Re: Sort question - Fractions, Metric etc

I would write a stable function converting everything to metric (or
imperial, depends on your preferences) and sort on the return of the
function. Since unit conversion functions do not need to modify the
database and should always return the same values for the same
arguments, the function can be used within a query (that is the meaning
of the keyword "STABLE")  and you can use it for sorting stuff

Regards

On 8/14/2021 12:14 PM, 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)
>
> 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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