Making NULL entries appear first when ORDER BY ASC - Mailing list pgsql-sql

From Andreas Joseph Krogh
Subject Making NULL entries appear first when ORDER BY ASC
Date
Msg-id 200502160055.59288.andreak@officenet.no
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Responses Re: Making NULL entries appear first when ORDER BY ASC  (Rosser Schwarz <rosser.schwarz@gmail.com>)
Re: Making NULL entries appear first when ORDER BY  (Ragnar Hafstað <gnari@simnet.is>)
Re: Making NULL entries appear first when ORDER BY ASC  ("Greg Sabino Mullane" <greg@turnstep.com>)
Re: Making NULL entries appear first when ORDER BY ASC  (Bruno Wolff III <bruno@wolff.to>)
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Hi, I have the following table, with the query below to list entries from it
where start_date IS NOT NULL:

CREATE TABLE onp_crm_activity_log(
id serial PRIMARY KEY,
start_date timestamp,
start_time timestamp,
end_time timestamp,
title varchar NOT NULL
);

SELECT start_date, start_time, end_time, title
FROM onp_crm_activity_log
WHERE start_date IS NOT NULL
ORDER BY start_date ASC, start_time ASC;
    start_date      |     start_time      |      end_time       |  title
---------------------+---------------------+---------------------+-----------2005-02-03 00:00:00 | 2005-02-03 08:00:00
|                    | Something2005-02-03 00:00:00 | 2005-02-03 09:00:00 | 2005-02-03 12:00:00 | Something2005-02-03
00:00:00|                     |                     | Something 


Now, as you see, touples with NULL in the "start_time"-field appear "after"
the others. I would like to make all entries where start_time IS NULL apear
*before* all the others. Any idea how to achieve this?


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