ORDER BY FIELD feature

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#1Kevin Reynolds
kreynolds98092@yahoo.com

Does postgresql have something similar to the ORDER BY FIELD feature found in MySQL?

Something like ORDER BY FIELD(ID, 10, 2, 56, 40);

It is listed here: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/sorting-rows.html

I am using the Sphinx Search program, www.sphinxsearch.com, and it returns a list of IDs ordered by relevance. I take the array it gives me and create a comma separated list which is used in a postgres query using the WHERE "ID" IN (10, 2, 56, 40) statement. I would like to order the result by the order of the list.

Thanks.

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#2Guillaume Lelarge
guillaume@lelarge.info
In reply to: Kevin Reynolds (#1)
Re: ORDER BY FIELD feature

Kevin Reynolds a �crit :

Does postgresql have something similar to the ORDER BY FIELD feature
found in MySQL?

Something like ORDER BY FIELD(ID, 10, 2, 56, 40);

It is listed here: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/sorting-rows.html

I am using the Sphinx Search program, www.sphinxsearch.com
<http://www.sphinxsearch.com&gt;, and it returns a list of IDs ordered by
relevance. I take the array it gives me and create a comma separated
list which is used in a postgres query using the WHERE "ID" IN (10, 2,
56, 40) statement. I would like to order the result by the order of the
list.

ORDER BY ID=10 DESC, ID=2 DESC, ID=56 DESC, ID=40 DESC
is the only way, AFAIK.

Regards.

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