Re: Function call order dependency

> I was kind of afraid of that. So, how could one implement such a function
> set?

Write a function (say, score_contains) that returns NULL whenever
contains would return false, and the score otherwise.

SELECT * FROM (   SELECT *, score_contains(mytable.title, 'Winding Road', 1) AS
score FROM mytable
) x WHERE x.score IS NOT NULL
ORDER BY x.score

...Robert