Re: Help with sorting (ie. ORDER BY expression) - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Bruno Wolff III
Subject Re: Help with sorting (ie. ORDER BY expression)
Date
Msg-id 20050206132348.GA952@wolff.to
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In response to Help with sorting (ie. ORDER BY expression)  ("Reuben D. Budiardja" <techlist@voyager.phys.utk.edu>)
List pgsql-general
On Sat, Feb 05, 2005 at 17:25:06 -0500,
  "Reuben D. Budiardja" <techlist@voyager.phys.utk.edu> 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

You could create a table with the question ids and their rank and join
that table to the above query and order by the rank.

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