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

我同意其他所有说“不要那样做”或“SQL不擅长那样做”的帖子。如果您想按注释的某个方面排序，那么向其中一个表添加另一个整数列以保存排序条件并按该值排序。按注释排序。“如果你想每次都按不同的顺序排序，那么……在这种情况下，SQL不适合您。

我认为这样比较好:

SELECT * FROM "comments" WHERE ("comments"."id" IN (1,3,2,4))
    ORDER BY  id=1 DESC, id=3 DESC, id=2 DESC, id=4 DESC

在Postgres 9.4中，这可以做得更短一些:

select c.*
from comments c
join (
  select *
  from unnest(array[43,47,42]) with ordinality
) as x (id, ordering) on c.id = x.id
order by x.ordering;

或者在没有派生表的情况下更加紧凑:

select c.*
from comments c
  join unnest(array[43,47,42]) with ordinality as x (id, ordering) 
    on c.id = x.id
order by x.ordering

无需手动为每个值分配/维护位置。

在Postgres 9.6中，可以使用array_position():

with x (id_list) as (
  values (array[42,48,43])
)
select c.*
from comments c, x
where id = any (x.id_list)
order by array_position(x.id_list, c.id);

使用CTE时，值列表只需要指定一次。如果这并不重要，也可以写成:

select c.*
from comments c
where id in (42,48,43)
order by array_position(array[42,48,43], c.id);

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,')

通过进一步研究，我发现了这个解决方案:

SELECT * FROM "comments" WHERE ("comments"."id" IN (1,3,2,4)) 
ORDER BY CASE "comments"."id"
WHEN 1 THEN 1
WHEN 3 THEN 2
WHEN 2 THEN 3
WHEN 4 THEN 4
END

然而，这似乎相当冗长，并且对于大型数据集可能会有性能问题。 有人能就这些问题发表评论吗?