Re: order of results - Mailing list pgsql-sql

From Gregor Rot
Subject Re: order of results
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Msg-id QrAbc.238$37.31493@news.siol.net
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In response to Re: order of results  (Bruno Wolff III <bruno@wolff.to>)
Responses Re: order of results  (Bruno Wolff III <bruno@wolff.to>)
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Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 25, 2004 at 14:23:00 +0100,
>   Gregor Rot <zara4tustra@yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
>>Hi,
>>
>>i have a table called "people" (name:varchar, lastname:varchar).
>>
>>i do a select on it:
>>
>>select * from people where name like '%n1%' or lastname like '%l1%'.
>>
>>i would like the results in this order:
>>
>>first the results that satisfy only the (name like '%n1%') condition, 
>>then the ones that satisfy only the (lastname like '%l1%') condition and 
>>last the results that satisfy both conditions.
>>
>>Is this possible in only one SQL?
>>(note that the search conditions n1 and l1 differ from search to search.
> 
> 
> Yes. You can order by true/false results from conditions to get the
> results in the desired order.

Thank you - sorry, but how do you do that?

Tnx,
Gregor


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