Re: Ordering Results by a Supplied Order

On Feb 6, 2014, at 12:57 PM, Gavin Flower wrote:

> On 07/02/14 05:43, Michael Sacket wrote:
>> On Feb 6, 2014, at 2:23 AM, Vik Fearing wrote:
>>
>>> On 02/06/2014 04:16 AM, Michael Sacket wrote:
>>>> Often times I find it necessary to work with table rows in a specific, generally user-supplied order. It could be anything really that requires an ordering that can't come from a natural column. Most of the time this involved manipulating a position column from the client application. In any case, I've often found that to be cumbersome, but I think I've come up with a solution that some of you may find useful.
>>>>
>>> Up until 9.4, that's a good way to do it.
>>>
>>> Starting from 9.4, you can use the WITH ORDINALITY feature.
>>> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/devel/static/sql-select.html
>>> --
>>> Vik
>> Even better! The development team is always making my work easier in unexpected ways.
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>>
> You do realize, that with this new feature, the licence fee for PostgreSQL will dramatically increase? :-)
>
>
> Cheers,
> Gavin

Nope, I missed that. Still says free as far as I can find. :-) I did however find a donate button. I encourage others to find it too!