Re: any way for ORDER BY x to imply NULLS FIRST in 8.3?

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От Jorge Godoy
Тема Re: any way for ORDER BY x to imply NULLS FIRST in 8.3?
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Ответ на Re: any way for ORDER BY x to imply NULLS FIRST in 8.3?  (rihad <rihad@mail.ru>)
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Em Wednesday 07 November 2007 13:54:32 rihad escreveu:
>
> May I, as an outsider, comment? :) I really think of ASC NULLS FIRST
> (and DESC NULLS LAST) as the way to go. Imagine a last_login column that
> sorts users that have not logged in as the most recently logged in,
> which is not very intuitive. I vote for sort_nulls_first defaulting to
> false in order not to break bc.

But then, when ordering by login date, you should use COALESCE and infinity
for them
(http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.2/interactive/datatype-datetime.html).



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Jorge Godoy      <jgodoy@gmail.com>


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