Re: Is it possible to make the order of output the same as the order of input parameters?

m. hvostinski <makhvost@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have a simple query like:
>
> SELECT * FROM customer WHERE id IN (23, 56, 2, 12, 10)
>
> The problem is that I need to retrieve the rows in the same order as the set of
> ids provided in the select statement. Can it be done?

No. The only way is:

select * from ... where id in (...) order by case when id=23 then 1,
case when id=56 then 2 end, case when id=2 then 3 end, ...

Andreas
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