Re: [pgAdmin][RM5157] Default sort order at start in view table data by primary key by default

On Thu, Apr 16, 2020 at 12:08 PM navnath gadakh <
navnath(dot)gadakh(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> wrote:

> Hi Dave/Team,
> This patch is related to the default sort order for the view
> table data. In pgAdminIII default ordering is by primary key and this is
> not working in pgAdminIV.
> I have attached the patch with the back end code.
>
> Please review it.
>
> *Question*: There is one suggestion on
> https://redmine.postgresql.org/issues/5157 about to put a checkbox in the
> configuration for this behavior.
> Do I need to implement that really? I yes, Is
> preferences a good place for that? / Suggestions?
>

I think we should make this optional, and yes, Preferences is a good place.
The reason is that sorting data is not without cost - at the very least it
will require use of an index to access what may be the whole table.

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