| From: | Vik Fearing <vik(dot)fearing(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> |
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| To: | "David G(dot) Johnston" <david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com>, john snow <ofbizfanster(at)gmail(dot)com> |
| Cc: | pgsql-novice <pgsql-novice(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: configure postgtresql to order NULLS FIRST instead of the default NULLS LAST |
| Date: | 2019-01-04 09:33:14 |
| Message-ID: | 08a2987b-3843-66c6-f249-99d65acdd119@2ndquadrant.com |
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On 04/01/2019 08:09, David G. Johnston wrote:
> On Thursday, January 3, 2019, john snow <ofbizfanster(at)gmail(dot)com
> <mailto:ofbizfanster(at)gmail(dot)com>> wrote:
>
> is there a setting that is available for me to use to configure
> Postgresql to order NULLS FIRST by default instead of NULLS LAST?
>
>
> No there is not and likely never will be as such an option introduces
> undesirable variability.
That, and the spec forbids it.
"If <null ordering> is not specified, then an implementation-defined
<null ordering> is implicit. The implementation-defined default for
<null ordering> shall not depend on the context outside of <sort
specification list>."
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