On Sun, 18 Mar 2012 22:26:11 +0200, Newbie <netfirebird@...> wrote:

> How to best implement ORDER BY of a query when the field by which to
> order, is given as stored procedure input parameter?
> for example a typical product list where could be ordered by Name, Price

> etc fields depending on what user clicks.
>
> I tried to include it into query:
>
> for
> select f1, f2 from t1
> order by :order_by_field
> into :p1, :p2
>
> I am not getting any errors, but it doesn't order the list. how to do it

> better?
> thanks.

You can't. You don't get an error as you are now simply ordering by the
value of :order_by_field, which is the same for all records.

You might get away with using a selector variable to select the field:

ORDER BY CASE :selector WHEN 1 THEN field1 WHEN 2 THEN field2 ELSE field3
END

If this works I am not sure if it will perform well though.

Mark