Re: selecting data from subquery in same order

You may use something like this in a stored function:

DECLARE
a INTEGER[];
BEGIN
a := '{2341548, 2325251, 2333130, 2015421,2073536, 2252374, 2273219,
2350850, 2367318, 2032977, 2032849}';
select * from users where id = any(a) order by idx(a, id);
END;

Or in the plain SQL:

select * from users where id = any(a) order by idx('{2341548, 2325251,
2333130, 2015421,2073536, 2252374, 2273219, 2350850, 2367318, 2032977,
2032849}', id);

Note that it is pretty fast only if the array contains not too much elements
(e.g. 20). Do not use for large arrays!

On Sun, Aug 17, 2008 at 4:11 AM, mark <markkicks(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

> hi
> if i execute this statement:
>
> select * from users where id in (2341548, 2325251, 2333130, 2015421,
> 2073536, 2252374, 2273219, 2350850, 2367318, 2032977, 2032849, )
>
> the order of rows obtained is random.
>
> is there anyway i can get the rows in the same order as the ids in
> subquery? or is there a different statement i can use?
> thanks!
>
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