From: Andreas Joseph Krogh <andreak@officenet.no>
Organization: OfficeNet AS
To: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Making NULL entries appear first when ORDER BY <field> ASC
Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 00:55:54 +0000
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Hi, I have the following table, with the query below to list entries from i=
t=20
where start_date IS NOT NULL:

CREATE TABLE onp_crm_activity_log(
id serial PRIMARY KEY,
start_date timestamp,
start_time timestamp,
end_time timestamp,
title varchar NOT NULL
);

SELECT start_date, start_time, end_time, title
=46ROM onp_crm_activity_log
WHERE start_date IS NOT NULL
ORDER BY start_date ASC, start_time ASC;

     start_date      |     start_time      |      end_time       |  title
=2D--------------------+---------------------+---------------------+-------=
=2D---
 2005-02-03 00:00:00 | 2005-02-03 08:00:00 |                     | Something
 2005-02-03 00:00:00 | 2005-02-03 09:00:00 | 2005-02-03 12:00:00 | Something
 2005-02-03 00:00:00 |                     |                     | Something


Now, as you see, touples with NULL in the "start_time"-field appear "after"=
=20
the others. I would like to make all entries where start_time IS NULL apear=
=20
*before* all the others. Any idea how to achieve this?


=2D-=20
Andreas Joseph Krogh <andreak@officenet.no>
Senior Software Developer / Manager
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