| From: | Bruno Wolff III <bruno(at)wolff(dot)to> |
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| To: | operationsengineer1(at)yahoo(dot)com |
| Cc: | "pgsql-novice(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-novice(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: SQL Order Question |
| Date: | 2006-05-04 19:40:11 |
| Message-ID: | 20060504194011.GA15993@wolff.to |
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On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 11:33:33 -0700,
operationsengineer1(at)yahoo(dot)com wrote:
> hi all,
>
> i want to order contract numbers id ascending order,
> with the exception of 'BTS' that I want to display
> first. the contract numbers are numeric and 'BTS' is
> text. the numeric values come first when i sort in
> asc order - as expected. how can i get BTS (id = 0)
> to come up as the first value in my query?
You can first order by column <> 'BTS'. Ordering by the numeric values is
trickier, but you should be able to have a case statement with a regular
expression that checks for valid numbers and in that case return the string
casted to numeric and for the invalid case return a constant numeric.
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