Re: sorting months according to fiscal year

On 23/08/11 01:27, Enzen user wrote:
> Hi
> I have to  rearrange the months according to the fiscal year i.e from April
> to march and use the same in the order by clause of a query.
> I have written the following postgresql function for the same, but to_number
> is returning an error.
> Can you please tell me where i'm going wrong?
> Instead of the function to_number can you suggest any other function that
> will convert a particular month to its corresponding month number(ex:
> april=4 or jan=1)
>
>
>   CREATE FUNCTION sort_month(to_number('April','MM')) RETURNS numeric AS $$
> DECLARE
>
> BEGIN
>
>         CASE WHEN 4 THEN 1
>              WHEN 5 THEN 2
>              WHEN 6 THEN 3
>              WHEN 7 THEN 4
>              WHEN 8 THEN 5
>              WHEN 9 THEN 6
>              WHEN 10 THEN 7
>              WHEN 11 THEN 8
>              WHEN 12 THEN 9
>              WHEN 1 THEN 10
>              WHEN 2 THEN 11
>              WHEN 3 THEN 12
>              ELSE 0
> END;
>
>
>
> $$ LANGUAGE plpgsql;
>
>
>
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You might find the following faster...

DROP FUNCTION IF EXISTS    sort_mont    (        to_number int    ) ;

CREATE FUNCTION    sort_mont    (        to_number int    )    RETURNS numeric    LANGUAGE plpgsql
AS
$$    BEGIN        RETURN 1 + (to_number + 8) % 12;    END;
$$;

SELECT sort_mont(1);
SELECT sort_mont(12);

/// output..

gavin=> \i modulus_stored_proc.sql
DROP FUNCTION
CREATE FUNCTION sort_mont
-----------        10
(1 row)
 sort_mont
-----------         9
(1 row)

gavin=>