Re: Ordering Results by a Supplied Order

On 07/02/14 05:43, Michael Sacket wrote:
> On Feb 6, 2014, at 2:23 AM, Vik Fearing wrote:
>
>> On 02/06/2014 04:16 AM, Michael Sacket wrote:
>>> Often times I find it necessary to work with table rows in a specific, generally user-supplied order.  It could be
anythingreally that requires an ordering that can't come from a natural column.  Most of the time this involved
manipulatinga position column from the client application.  In any case, I've often found that to be cumbersome, but I
thinkI've come up with a solution that some of you may find useful. 
>>>
>> Up until 9.4, that's a good way to do it.
>>
>> Starting from 9.4, you can use the WITH ORDINALITY feature.
>> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/devel/static/sql-select.html
>> --
>> Vik
> Even better!  The development team is always making my work easier in unexpected ways.
>
> Thanks!
>
>
You do realize, that with this new feature, the licence fee for
PostgreSQL will dramatically increase?  :-)


Cheers,
Gavin