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Re: Is it possible to make the order of output the same as the order of input parameters?

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Sam Mason <sam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>> >   SELECT c.*
>> >   FROM customer c, (
>> >     SELECT *, row_number() OVER ()
>> >     FROM (VALUES (23), (56), (2), (12), (10)) x) x(val,ord)
>> >   WHERE c.id = x.val
>> >   ORDER BY x.ord;

>> Wow, that's really cool and a nice case for row_number().

> Just thinking about it now; do SQL's semantics say it'll always do
> the right thing?  PG does in a couple of quick tests (i.e. one where
> customer is a small table and PG prefers a seqscan and where it's larger
> and prefers an index scan) but I'm not sure if this could change.

PostgreSQL's documentation on VALUES has at least no guaran-
tee of the order of data. I'd prefer David's solution :-).

Tim


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