RE: [HACKERS] Counting bool flags in a complex query

Sorry guys, this line:
>> ORDER BY (if(folderid < 0) then return(abs(folderid)) else
>> return(folderid+max(abs(MIN(folderid)))))

Should have read:
ORDER BY (if(folderid < 0) then return(abs(folderid)) else
return(folderid+abs(MIN(folderid))))

The max was an error.

MikeA

>>
>> Why don't you adjust the ids of your system folders, such
>> that they are
>> ordered properly? You should have a fixed number of system
>> folders, so you
>> can guarantee the ids that they will receive. So make the
>> Inbox -4. Then
>> you just order by folder id, ascending. -4 comes first,
>> with the user
>> folders always coming after the system folders.
>>
>> Alternatively, you can sort by an expression, something like:
>>
>> ORDER BY (if(folderid < 0) then return(abs(folderid)) else
>> return(folderid+max(abs(MIN(folderid)))))
>>
>> What this does is shift all the ids up to ensure that they
>> all fall into the
>> positive range, while inverting the order of the negative
>> ids, which seems