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Re: How do I bump a row to the front of sort efficiently

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On Mon, Feb 02, 2015 at 05:16:40PM +1100, Sam Saffron wrote:
> Even this is fast, and logically equiv as id is primary key unique
> select * from topic
> where id = 1000
> union all
> select * from (
>   select * from topics
>   where id <> 1000
>   order by bumped_at desc
>   limit 30
> ) as x
> limit 30
> Is there any clean technique to bump up particular rows to the front
> of a sort if a certain condition is met without paying a huge
> performance hit?

Why don't you use the union-all approach? If it's fast, and does what
you need ?

depesz

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