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From Rene Pijlman
Subject NULLs and sort order
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Msg-id 7b0npts2v4csnqttdoviurtnsbvafape0v@4ax.com
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Responses Re: NULLs and sort order  (Rene Pijlman <rene@lab.applinet.nl>)
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I'm forwarding this information from Peter Eisentraut on
pgsql-hackers about NULLs and sort order. I couldn't find this
in the documentation.

I guess it should be in "ORDER BY Clause" of "SELECT" in the
Reference Manual, and in the 7.2 release notes.

Can someone add this to the documentation?

Or am I expected to submit a patch on the Docbook sources?

On Sun, 9 Sep 2001 15:25:17 +0200 (CEST), Peter Eisentraut
<peter_e@gmx.net> wrote:
>Rene Pijlman writes:
>> Currently the JDBC driver says:
>> - Backend >= 7.2 sorts nulls higher than any other value in a
>> domain. In other words: ascending means nulls at the end,
>> descending means nulls at the start.
>> - Backend < 7.2 puts nulls at the end regardless of sort order.
>
>That is correct.
>
>--
>Peter Eisentraut   peter_e@gmx.net   http://funkturm.homeip.net/~peter

Regards,
René Pijlman <rene@lab.applinet.nl>

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