In response to Stephen Frost :
> * m. hvostinski (makhvost(at)gmail(dot)com) wrote:
> > I have a simple query like:
> >
> > SELECT * FROM customer WHERE id IN (23, 56, 2, 12, 10)
> >
> > The problem is that I need to retrieve the rows in the same order as the set
> > of ids provided in the select statement. Can it be done?
>
> Not very easily. My first thought would be doing something like:
>
> SELECT
> customer.*
> FROM
> customer a
> JOIN (VALUES (1,23),(2,56),(3,2),(4,12),(5,10)) b
> ON (a.id = b.column2)
> ORDER BY b.column1
Nice ;-)
Andreas
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