John DeSoi wrote:
> Suppose I have an integer array (or cursor with one integer column)
> which represents primary keys of some table. Is there a simple and
> efficient way to return the rows of the table corresponding to the
> primary key values and keep them in the same order as the array (or
> cursor)? Seems like it should be easy, but I'm not seeing it.
>
> Thanks,
>
>
> John DeSoi, Ph.D.
Matching the rows is easy. Getting them in the same order as the items
in the array will require an ORDER BY. The contrib package _int has an
idx() that you can use for that.
SELECT *
FROM foo
WHERE foo.id = ANY(myPkArray)
ORDER BY idx(myPkArray, id)
