| From: | "Gurjeet Singh" <singh(dot)gurjeet(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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| To: | "Harald Fuchs" <hf1110x(at)protecting(dot)net> |
| Cc: | pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: ORDER BY |
| Date: | 2006-11-21 03:05:34 |
| Message-ID: | 65937bea0611201905v3f5adf02r254d82cc6d26f641@mail.gmail.com |
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On 16 Nov 2006 11:04:15 +0100, Harald Fuchs <hf1110x(at)protecting(dot)net> wrote:
>
> Why so complicated?
>
> SELECT whatever FROM foo ORDER BY name = 'Other', name
>
This is by far the simplest (and intelligent) of them all. And it will use a
single scan of the underlying table (or index, if used), so should prove to
be faster than the other UNION schemes.
Another tweak: If possible, use the integer column (ID) instead of the Name
column.
Regards,
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