Ragnar <gnari@xxxxxxx> schrieb: > > test=*# select w, case when w ~ '^[0-9]*$' then w::int else 10000 end from foo order by 2,1; > > possible improvements: > a) w ~ '^[0-9]+$' > b) use NULL instead of 10000 Thanks, right. Andreas -- Really, I'm not out to destroy Microsoft. That will just be a completely unintentional side effect. (Linus Torvalds) "If I was god, I would recompile penguin with --enable-fly." (unknow) Kaufbach, Saxony, Germany, Europe. N 51.05082°, E 13.56889°