On Tue, Jun 01, 2010 at 06:16:06PM -0400, m. hvostinski 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?
Yes, you just need to make the order explicit:
SELECT c.*
FROM customer c, (VALUES
(1,23), (2,56),
(3, 2), (4,12),
(5,10)) x(ord,val)
WHERE c.id = x.val
ORDER BY x.ord;
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