| From: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Charles Albrecht <charlesa(at)pobox(dot)com> |
| Cc: | pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Ordering 'A', 'B', ..., 'Z', 'AA', 'AB', ... |
| Date: | 2002-02-20 21:47:09 |
| Message-ID: | 200202202147.g1KLl9p13545@candle.pha.pa.us |
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> ORDER BY
> CASE WHEN TABLE.MYCOLUMN LIKE '__'
> THEN TABLE.MYCOLUMN
> ELSE ' ' || TABLE.MYCOLUMN END
>
> The syntax may be a little different in pg, though.
>
> It's also easy enough to do in Perl with a custom sort sub.
In PostgreSQL, you would need to create a column with the CASE, the
order by that using the column number or AS to name the column and order
on that name.
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