Re: [SQL] ORDER BY what? - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Martín Marqués
Subject Re: [SQL] ORDER BY what?
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Msg-id 01061311265400.08685@bugs
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In response to Re: [SQL] ORDER BY what?  (Bruno Wolff III <bruno@wolff.to>)
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Re: Re: [SQL] ORDER BY what?
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On Mié 13 Jun 2001 16:16, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 03:53:22PM +0300,
>
> >
> > OK, let me give an example:
> >
> > select * from tab1 where col1 like '%word%' or col2 like '%word%' and
> > col3 like '%word%'
> >
> > and I want to order by the amopunt of matches that a matching register
> > has. Something like, if it matches all the ORs, then it should go first,
> > and if it matches only one of the ORs it should go last.
> > Or maybe even have several words trying to match one of the columns.
>
> You could do this by computing a value based on the number of parts
> that matched and order by it.

Could you give me a hint on this? Do I have to use PLSQL? Triggers? Something
else?

Thanks for the responce.

Saludos... :-)

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