2009/7/9 Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us>: > =?UTF-8?Q?Grzegorz_Ja=C5=9Bkiewicz?= <gryz...@gmail.com> writes: >> On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 5:26 PM, Craig James<craig_ja...@emolecules.com> >> wrote: >>> Suppose I have a large table with a small-cardinality CATEGORY column (say, >>> categories 1..5). I need to sort by an arbitrary (i.e. user-specified) >>> mapping of CATEGORY, something like this: > >> you can create translation table, join it, and sort by its key. > > Much easier to > ORDER BY CASE category WHEN 'z' THEN 1 WHEN 'a' THEN 2 ... END > > Actually, consider putting the CASE into a function and doing > ORDER BY sort_order(category)
I suppose table is handy, when you have a lot of items as keys... -- GJ -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance
