From: | Michael Sacket <msacket(at)gammastream(dot)com> |
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To: | Vik Fearing <vik(dot)fearing(at)dalibo(dot)com> |
Cc: | PG-General Mailing List <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: Ordering Results by a Supplied Order |
Date: | 2014-02-06 16:43:20 |
Message-ID: | C4273299-AE49-465B-B19F-A6C0796B2F9B@gammastream.com |
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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.
>>
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> 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!
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