对枚举进行排序实际上是如何工作的?

How does sorting on enums actually work?

当 运行 在 MySQL 命令行客户端中执行以下查询时,我遇到了一些奇怪的行为:

SELECT favoriteGenre, firstName, lastName 
FROM members 
ORDER BY favoriteGenre, firstName;

我得到以下结果:

favoriteGenre       firstName       lastName
crime               Jane            Field
crime               John            Sparks
horror              Marty           Pareene
thriller            Mary            Newton
romance             Jo              Scrivener
sciFi               Nick            Blakeley
nonFiction          Bill            Swan

但我期待这些结果:

favoriteGenre       firstName       lastName
crime               Jane            Field
crime               John            Sparks
horror              Marty           Pareene
nonFiction          Bill            Swan
romance             Jo              Scrivener
sciFi               Nick            Blakeley
thriller            Mary            Newton

请注意,nonFiction 排在第 7 位,而我预计它会排在第 4 位...

此 SQL 用于创建 table:

USE mydatabase;

CREATE TABLE members (
  id              SMALLINT UNSIGNED NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
  username        VARCHAR(30) BINARY NOT NULL UNIQUE,
  password        CHAR(41) NOT NULL,
  firstName       VARCHAR(30) NOT NULL,
  lastName        VARCHAR(30) NOT NULL,
  joinDate        DATE NOT NULL,
  gender          ENUM( 'm', 'f' ) NOT NULL,
  favoriteGenre   ENUM( 'crime', 'horror', 'thriller', 'romance', 'sciFi', 'adventure', 'nonFiction' ) NOT NULL,
  emailAddress    VARCHAR(50) NOT NULL UNIQUE,
  otherInterests  TEXT NOT NULL,
  PRIMARY KEY (id)
);

INSERT INTO members VALUES( 1, 'sparky', password('mypass'), 'John', 'Sparks', '2007-11-13', 'm', 'crime', 'jsparks@example.com', 'Football, fishing and gardening' );
INSERT INTO members VALUES( 2, 'mary', password('mypass'), 'Mary', 'Newton', '2007-02-06', 'f', 'thriller', 'mary@example.com', 'Writing, hunting and travel' );
INSERT INTO members VALUES( 3, 'jojo', password('mypass'), 'Jo', 'Scrivener', '2006-09-03', 'f', 'romance', 'jscrivener@example.com', 'Genealogy, writing, painting' );
INSERT INTO members VALUES( 4, 'marty', password('mypass'), 'Marty', 'Pareene', '2007-01-07', 'm', 'horror', 'marty@example.com', 'Guitar playing, rock music, clubbing' );
INSERT INTO members VALUES( 5, 'nickb', password('mypass'), 'Nick', 'Blakeley', '2007-08-19', 'm', 'sciFi', 'nick@example.com', 'Watching movies, cooking, socializing' );
INSERT INTO members VALUES( 6, 'bigbill', password('mypass'), 'Bill', 'Swan', '2007-06-11', 'm', 'nonFiction', 'billswan@example.com', 'Tennis, judo, music' );
INSERT INTO members VALUES( 7, 'janefield', password('mypass'), 'Jane', 'Field', '2006-03-03', 'f', 'crime', 'janefield@example.com', 'Thai cookery, gardening, traveling' );

幕后究竟发生了什么,这种排序是如何进行的?此行为是否仅 MySQL 独有?

它会首先按第一列对结果进行排序,如果一种类型有多个结果,在你的情况下就是犯罪;它将根据第二个定义的列进行排序。

因此,首先它将按 favoriteGenre 排序,然后按名字排序

你的情况是 enum ,所以它改变了整个游戏。它只会对其索引进行排序。因此,您会遇到这种奇怪的行为。

希望解释清楚

favoriteGenre 是一个 enum,而不是我们大多数人期望看到的文本字段。

正如您在 documentation 中看到的那样,enum 是按索引排序的,而不是按文本表示排序的。这使您的查询结果正确。

要按值对 enum 进行排序,您需要使用 CAST(col AS CHAR)(感谢 McAdam331 for adding this, also see his SQLFiddle)。我建议您对您的数据库进行适当的规范化。