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Re: Ordering Results by a Supplied Order

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On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 7:16 PM, Michael Sacket <msacket@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Often times I find it necessary to work with table rows in a specific,
> generally user-supplied order.  It could be anything really that requires an
> ordering that can't come from a natural column.  Most of the time this
> involved manipulating a position column from the client application.  In any
> case, I've often found that to be cumbersome, but I think I've come up with
> a solution that some of you may find useful.

There also are some ways of doing it without creating an additional
column http://www.depesz.com/2010/07/25/how-to-order-by-some-random-query-defined-values/.

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