On Sat, Jan 14, 2006 at 01:38:52PM -0600, Robert Paulsen wrote:
>
> SELECT foo, bar, baz, FROM my_table WHERE state ~ '[abc]'
> ORDER BY state ASC LIMIT 1.
>
> This works as expected. My problem is that I am relying on the collating
> sequence of the letters a-z and the desirability of states may not always be
> in this order.
How do you determine desirability? You could order by an expression
that evaluates to a state's desirability.
--
Michael Fuhr
