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From Miles Elam
Subject Sorting composite types
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Responses Re: Sorting composite types  (Laurenz Albe <laurenz.albe@cybertec.at>)
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Is there any way to define a natural sorting order for composite types? For example, let's say you have a type like:

CREATE TYPE contrived AS (
    i1 integer,
    i2 integer
);

The semantics of this contrived type are that the natural order is ascending NULLS first for i1 and descending NULLS last for i2. I know I can do an ORDER BY per query and specify each part separately, but if my contrived example has a perceived natural sort order, is there any way to set that in a global way so that I can simply and universally ORDER BY my_contrived_column?

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