让我们对已经说过的内容有一个直观的印象。例如，你有一个带有一些任务的表:

SELECT a.id,a.status,a.description FROM minicloud_tasks as a ORDER BY random();

 id |   status   |   description    
----+------------+------------------
  4 | processing | work on postgres
  6 | deleted    | need some rest
  3 | pending    | garden party
  5 | completed  | work on html

并且您希望按状态对任务列表进行排序。 status是一个字符串值列表:

(processing, pending,  completed, deleted)

诀窍是给每个状态值一个整数，并以数字顺序排列列表:

SELECT a.id,a.status,a.description FROM minicloud_tasks AS a
  JOIN (
    VALUES ('processing', 1), ('pending', 2), ('completed', 3), ('deleted', 4)
  ) AS b (status, id) ON (a.status = b.status)
  ORDER BY b.id ASC;

这就导致:

 id |   status   |   description    
----+------------+------------------
  4 | processing | work on postgres
  3 | pending    | garden party
  5 | completed  | work on html
  6 | deleted    | need some rest

信贷@user80168

无序列，只适用于8.4:

select * from comments c
join 
(
    select id, row_number() over() as id_sorter  
    from (select unnest(ARRAY[1,3,2,4]) as id) as y
) x on x.id = c.id
order by x.id_sorter

要做到这一点，我认为您可能应该有一个额外的“ORDER”表，它定义了id到ORDER的映射(有效地执行您对自己的问题的回答)，然后您可以将其用作选择上的附加列，然后对其进行排序。

通过这种方式，您可以显式地描述您希望在数据库中的顺序，以及它应该在哪里。

只是因为它很难找到，它必须被传播:在mySQL中，这可以做得更简单，但我不知道它是否适用于其他SQL。

SELECT * FROM `comments`
WHERE `comments`.`id` IN ('12','5','3','17')
ORDER BY FIELD(`comments`.`id`,'12','5','3','17')

让我们对已经说过的内容有一个直观的印象。例如，你有一个带有一些任务的表:

SELECT a.id,a.status,a.description FROM minicloud_tasks as a ORDER BY random();

 id |   status   |   description    
----+------------+------------------
  4 | processing | work on postgres
  6 | deleted    | need some rest
  3 | pending    | garden party
  5 | completed  | work on html

并且您希望按状态对任务列表进行排序。 status是一个字符串值列表:

(processing, pending,  completed, deleted)

诀窍是给每个状态值一个整数，并以数字顺序排列列表:

SELECT a.id,a.status,a.description FROM minicloud_tasks AS a
  JOIN (
    VALUES ('processing', 1), ('pending', 2), ('completed', 3), ('deleted', 4)
  ) AS b (status, id) ON (a.status = b.status)
  ORDER BY b.id ASC;

这就导致:

 id |   status   |   description    
----+------------+------------------
  4 | processing | work on postgres
  3 | pending    | garden party
  5 | completed  | work on html
  6 | deleted    | need some rest

信贷@user80168

SELECT * FROM "comments" JOIN (
  SELECT 1 as "id",1 as "order" UNION ALL 
  SELECT 3,2 UNION ALL SELECT 2,3 UNION ALL SELECT 4,4
) j ON "comments"."id" = j."id" ORDER BY j.ORDER

或者如果你喜欢恶而不是善:

SELECT * FROM "comments" WHERE ("comments"."id" IN (1,3,2,4))
ORDER BY POSITION(','+"comments"."id"+',' IN ',1,3,2,4,')