Artacus wrote: > 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')) The simplest direct mapping would probably be a CASE statement (see the PostgreSQL documentation). As others have noted, enums and Pl/PgSQL functions are also options. -- Craig Ringer