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Re: Ordering Results by a Supplied Order

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On Feb 6, 2014, at 2:23 AM, Vik Fearing wrote:

> On 02/06/2014 04:16 AM, Michael Sacket 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.  
>> 
> 
> Up until 9.4, that's a good way to do it.
> 
> Starting from 9.4, you can use the WITH ORDINALITY feature.
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/devel/static/sql-select.html
> -- 
> Vik

Even better!  The development team is always making my work easier in unexpected ways.  

Thanks!




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