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2007-10-12       - By Daevid Vincent

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I'm trying to get some 'release/version numbers' to sort properly.

mysql> SELECT ReleaseID, Name FROM releases ORDER BY Name DESC;        
+-- ---- ---+-- ---- ---- ---- ---+
| ReleaseID | Name                |
+-- ---- ---+-- ---- ---- ---- ---+
|        18 | Unspecified         |
|        20 | Next Patch          |
|        58 | LOCset              |
|        74 | Abashiri            |
|        54 | 4.6.0 (Folsom)      |
             <-- 4.5.10 should be here
|        99 | 4.5.9               |
|        98 | 4.5.6               |
|        93 | 4.5.5 (Purdy)       |
|        97 | 4.5.4               |
|        96 | 4.5.3               |
|        94 | 4.5.2               |
|       100 | 4.5.10              |   <-- should be ^ there
|        91 | 4.5.1 Deferred      |
|        78 | 4.5.1 (Leavenworth) |
|        95 | 4.2.7.4             |
|        92 | 4.2.7.3             |
|        90 | 4.2.7.2             |
|        87 | 4.2.7.1             |
|        88 | 4.2.7.0             |  

I like this order, especially with the top four,
except for that 4.5.10 should be higher up,
just under 4.6.0, not under 4.5.2 as it is now.

So I tried the " + 0 " trick which makes things even worse
(notice the 4.2.6.1 and 4.2.6.0 -- yipes!):

mysql> SELECT ReleaseID, Name FROM releases ORDER BY Name + 0 DESC;
+-- ---- ---+-- ---- ---- ---- ---+
| ReleaseID | Name                |
+-- ---- ---+-- ---- ---- ---- ---+
            ....(18,20,58,74) are moved
:(
|        54 | 4.6.0 (Folsom)      |
|        78 | 4.5.1 (Leavenworth) |
|       100 | 4.5.10              |
|        91 | 4.5.1 Deferred      |
|        93 | 4.5.5 (Purdy)       |
|        94 | 4.5.2               |
|        96 | 4.5.3               |
|        97 | 4.5.4               |
|        98 | 4.5.6               |
|        99 | 4.5.9               |
|        82 | 4.2.6.1             |  <<  ?
|        76 | 4.2.2               |
|        75 | 4.2.4               |
|        72 | 4.2.1               |
|        73 | 4.2.3               |
|        67 | 4.2.6.0             |  <<  ?


I'm pretty sure this is going to involve some sort of splitting the version
from the release codeword via some string functions, and then operating on
that part.


D.Vin
http://daevid.com
---
eval() is my favorite templating engine.



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