On Nov 9, 2007 5:17 AM, rihad <rihad@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > 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). > > It's not an easy thing to do with for example Propel 1.2 ORM (written in > PHP): > > $criteria->addDescendingOrderByColumn(myPeer::LAST_LOGIN); // no place > to shove database-specific attributes in. Why not create an updatable view that orders the way you want it to? ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: explain analyze is your friend
