Can Django ORM do an ORDER BY on a specific value of a column?

Question

I have a table 'tickets' with the following columns

• id - primary key - auto increment
• title - varchar(256)
• status - smallint(6) - Can have any value between 1 and 5, handled by Django

When I'll do a SELECT * I want the rows with status = 4 at the top, the other records will follow them. It can be achieved by the following query:

select * from tickets order by status=4 DESC

Can this query be executed through Django ORM? What parameters should be passed to the QuerySet.order_by() method?

Answer 1

q = Ticket.objects.extra(select={'is_top': "status = 4"})
q = q.extra(order_by = ['-is_top'])