Re: Custom sort - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Artacus
Subject Re: Custom sort
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Msg-id 48A5AAB4.80107@comcast.net
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In response to Re: Custom sort  (Guillaume Lelarge <guillaume@lelarge.info>)
List pgsql-general
>> Can you define a custom sort in postgres? For instance in mysql, you
>> could do something like (I forget the exact syntax)
>>
>> ORDER BY FIND_IN_SET(column_name, ('one','two','three'))
>>
>
> I don't really know this syntax but isn't it something like :
>   ORDER BY column_name='one', column_name='two', column='three'  ?

Thanks all. I'm not sure it's the best solution but,
here's what I ended up doing

ORDER BY strpos(column_name, 'One,Two,Three')

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