create sequence serial start 1;

select * from comments c
join (select unnest(ARRAY[1,3,2,4]) as id, nextval('serial') as id_sorter) x
on x.id = c.id
order by x.id_sorter;

drop sequence serial;

(编辑)

Unnest在8.3中还没有内置，但你可以自己创建一个(任何的美丽*):

create function unnest(anyarray) returns setof anyelement
language sql as
$$
    select $1[i] from generate_series(array_lower($1,1),array_upper($1,1)) i;
$$;

该函数可以在任何类型下工作:

select unnest(array['John','Paul','George','Ringo']) as beatle
select unnest(array[1,3,2,4]) as id

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

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,')

这里有另一个解决方案，它使用了一个常量表(http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/interactive/sql-values.html):)

SELECT * FROM comments AS c,
(VALUES (1,1),(3,2),(2,3),(4,4) ) AS t (ord_id,ord)
WHERE (c.id IN (1,3,2,4)) AND (c.id = t.ord_id)
ORDER BY ord

但我不确定这是表现性的。

我现在有一堆答案了。我可以得到一些投票和评论，这样我就知道哪一个是赢家!

谢谢大家:-)

相比使用序列的版本略有改进，我认为:

CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION in_sort(anyarray, out id anyelement, out ordinal int)
LANGUAGE SQL AS
$$
    SELECT $1[i], i FROM generate_series(array_lower($1,1),array_upper($1,1)) i;
$$;

SELECT 
    * 
FROM 
    comments c
    INNER JOIN (SELECT * FROM in_sort(ARRAY[1,3,2,4])) AS in_sort
        USING (id)
ORDER BY in_sort.ordinal;

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?