Re: Need to overcome UNION / ORDER BY restriction

On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 17:27:47 +0300,
Timo <siroco(at)suomi24(dot)fi> wrote:
>
> I'd need to get a result set where rows are sorted according to these rules:
>
> 1. first all rows with priority = 1 sorted according to seniority
> 2. then the rest of the rows sorted by seniority, priority

You can do something like:
bruno=> select * from foo order by priority <> 1, seniority, priority;
id | priority | seniority
-----+----------+-----------
902 | 1 | 271
935 | 1 | 276
924 | 1 | 581
902 | 2 | 271
902 | 3 | 271
972 | 2 | 275
935 | 2 | 276
924 | 2 | 581
924 | 3 | 581
(9 rows)