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hi list
 
coming from the MS-SQL Server world, we're migrating our applications slowly to pgsql 8.1. now we thumbled on a problem with different sort-order behaviours:
 
we got a table with dated records:
table: votes (v_userid, v_date)
 
the v_date field can either be null or a date in the past. in mssql, sorting the table to list records in descending date-order
 
select v_date, v_userid from votes order by v_date desc
 
produces a list where first the records with dates are listed, and then the ones with nulls. in pgsql, the null-records are listed first before the date-records... how can this behaviour be changed?
 
mssql:
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2005-11-05  3
2005-11-01  4
2005-09-10  1
null  2
null  5
 
pgsql:
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null  2
null  5
2005-11-05  3
2005-11-01  4
2005-09-10  1
 
thanks in advance,
thomas

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