Re: ORDER BY 'DK', 'DE', DESC? - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Stephan Szabo
Subject Re: ORDER BY 'DK', 'DE', DESC?
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Msg-id 20040520101818.E17153@megazone.bigpanda.com
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In response to ORDER BY 'DK', 'DE', DESC?  (Victor Spång Arthursson <scooterbabe@home.se>)
Responses Re: ORDER BY 'DK', 'DE', DESC?  (Adam Ruth <aruth@intercation.com>)
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On Tue, 11 May 2004, [ISO-8859-1] Victor Spång Arthursson wrote:

> Hi!
>
> I would like to know if it's possible to give a priority order of how
> to sort the returning rows?
>
> Like for example to order every row with a field language = DK first,
> then the rows with field language = *DE' and last the other languages,
> ordered alphabetically…?

Well, I think you can do something like:

ORDER BY (language = 'DK'), (language = 'DE'), language

(or you could possibly condense the first two into one with case)

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