Re: selecting data from subquery in same order - Mailing list pgsql-general

On Sat, Aug 16, 2008 at 6:11 PM, mark <markkicks@gmail.com> wrote:
> hi
> if i execute this statement:
>
> select * from users where id in (2341548, 2325251, 2333130, 2015421,
> 2073536, 2252374, 2273219, 2350850, 2367318, 2032977, 2032849, )
>
> the order of rows obtained is random.
>
> is there anyway i can get the rows in the same order as the ids in
> subquery? or is there a different statement i can use?
> thanks!

Technically, that's just a list, not a subquery, but that's not
important right now.

You can use a case statement.

select field1, field2, idfield from users where id in (1,4,3) order by
case
  when idfield=1 then 1
  when idfield=3 then 2
  when idfield=4 then 3
end