In response to Matthew Wakeling : > On Mon, 25 Jan 2010, A. Kretschmer wrote: > >In response to ramasubramanian : > > > >Please, create a new mail for a new topic and don't hijack other > >threads. > > Even more so - this isn't probably the right mailing list for generic sql > help questions. ACK. > >select ENAME,ORIG_SALARY, 1 as my_order from employee where (ename='Tom' > >and > >orig_salary=2413) union all select ENAME,ORIG_SALARY, 2 employee where > >(orig_salary=1234 ) order by my_order. > > Or just: > > select ENAME,ORIG_SALARY from employee where (ename='Tom' and > orig_salary=2413)or(orig_salary=1234 ) ORDER BY orig_salary DESC > > as there is going to be only two values for orig_salary. hehe, yes, overseen that fact ;-) Andreas -- Andreas Kretschmer Kontakt: Heynitz: 035242/47150, D1: 0160/7141639 (mehr: -> Header) GnuPG: 0x31720C99, 1006 CCB4 A326 1D42 6431 2EB0 389D 1DC2 3172 0C99 -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance