On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 7:30 PM, Jasmin Dizdarevic
<jasmin.dizdarevic@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
> I'm not so keen on that - it could require some funky code to ensure
> that the user uses sequential (or at least, non-duplicate) numbers
> across all steps and would be a pain to upgrade to. Plus, there is
> precedence for using alpha ordering - that's how triggers work
>> I don't think that we must ensure that no duplicate values are used. With
>> changing the "order by jstname,jstid" clause to "order by
>> jstorder,jstname,jstid" we would have a fall back on alpha ordering.
>> Steps with "jstorder" = null would be executed last - so there is no need to
>> upgrade. To give the user feedback about ordering in pgadmin, the steps
>> could be ordered the same way in tree view and steps tab in job properties
>> dialog. We could also add the jstorder-column to the list view.
What do others think? I'm still not convinced this is necessary - and
it certainly will become inconsistent with triggers.
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