From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> Sent: Tuesday, March 1, 2022 4:02 PM To: David G. Johnston <david.g.johnston@gmail.com> Cc: Sebastien Flaesch <sebastien.flaesch@4js.com>; pgsql-sql <pgsql-sql@lists.postgresql.org> Subject: Re: Global setting for ORDER BY ... NULLS FIRST / LAST
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"David G. Johnston" <david.g.johnston@gmail.com> writes: > On Tue, Mar 1, 2022 at 7:16 AM Sebastien Flaesch <sebastien.flaesch@4js.com> > wrote: >> Is there a global PostgreSQL server setting or SQL session parameter that >> defines the default for ORDER BY ... NULLS FIRST / LAST ?
> IMO, not enough of a benefit to spend development time on. Having global > configuration like this is something that should be, and in general is, > avoided. Most of the exceptions to this have been regretted.
Yeah. We have generally found that settings that change query semantics are a net evil.
