Re: Help with sorting (ie. ORDER BY expression)

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Hi,

This can be easily done with pl/pgsql, visit the documentation at
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/7.3/interactive/programmer-pl.html

OT: seems like this is a questionnaire/survey application, yes?

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Jonel Rienton
http://blogs.road14.com
Software Developer, *nix Advocate
On Feb 5, 2005, at 4:25 PM, Reuben D. Budiardja wrote:

>
> Hello,
> I am running postgres-7.3. I have a query like this:
>
> SELECT question_id, question_text
> FROM quiz_table
> WHERE question_id IN (2,10,3,6,4,5);
>
> But I want the output to be sorted in the way I give the question_id,
> something like:
>
> SELECT question_id, question_text
> FROM quiz_table
> WHERE question_id IN (2,10,3,6,4,5)
> ORDER BY question_id (2,10,3,6,4,5)
>
> Is there any way I can do that, so that the output of the query is
>
> question_id, text
> 2 ...
> 10
> 3
> 6
> 4
> 5
>
> Thanks for any help.
>
> RDB
>
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> Reuben D. Budiardja
> Dept. Physics and Astronomy
> University of Tennesse, Knoxville, TN
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