在Postgresql:

select *
from comments
where id in (1,3,2,4)
order by position(id::text in '1,3,2,4')

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,')

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。

在Postgresql:

select *
from comments
where id in (1,3,2,4)
order by position(id::text in '1,3,2,4')

在Postgres中另一种方法是使用idx函数。

SELECT *
FROM comments
ORDER BY idx(array[1,3,2,4], comments.id)

不要忘记首先创建idx函数，如下所述:http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Array_Index