In response to Artacus <artacus@xxxxxxxxxxx>: > Can you define a custom sort in postgres? For instance in mysql, you > could do something like (I forget the exact syntax) > > ORDER BY FIND_IN_SET(column_name, ('one','two','three')) You could do this by defining an ENUM for the values. ENUMs sort in the order the values were defined. You could also define a pgsql function that did the sort for you, if ENUMs didn't cut it. i.e.: SELECT sort_col FROM some_table ORDER BY my_sort_func(sort_col); -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. http://people.collaborativefusion.com/~wmoran/ wmoran@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Phone: 412-422-3463x4023 **************************************************************** IMPORTANT: This message contains confidential information and is intended only for the individual named. If the reader of this message is not an intended recipient (or the individual responsible for the delivery of this message to an intended recipient), please be advised that any re-use, dissemination, distribution or copying of this message is prohibited. Please notify the sender immediately by e-mail if you have received this e-mail by mistake and delete this e-mail from your system. E-mail transmission cannot be guaranteed to be secure or error-free as information could be intercepted, corrupted, lost, destroyed, arrive late or incomplete, or contain viruses. The sender therefore does not accept liability for any errors or omissions in the contents of this message, which arise as a result of e-mail transmission. ****************************************************************