Re: Changed default ordering in tables

Hi Erwin

On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 4:47 PM, Erwin Brandstetter
<brandstetter(at)falter(dot)at> wrote:
> Aloha!
>
> In  v1.14 tables are opened with ORDER BY $pkey DESC.
> I wonder if descending order ist intended. It used to be the other way round
> and, as far as I am concerned, that was just fine in most cases.
> We have the new feature "View Data" .. "View top / last 100 rows" anyway. No
> need to change the default behavior?

The default is determined like this:

orderBy = table->GetQuotedPrimaryKey();
if (orderBy.IsEmpty() && hasOids)
orderBy = wxT("oid");
if (!orderBy.IsEmpty())
{
if (pkAscending)
orderBy += wxT(" ASC");
else
orderBy += wxT(" DESC");
}

Essentially, we try to follow the ordering in the index.

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