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From: Rosser Schwarz <rosser.schwarz@gmail.com>
To: Andreas Joseph Krogh <andreak@officenet.no>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Making NULL entries appear first when ORDER BY <field> ASC
Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 20:24:50 -0600
Message-ID: <37d451f705021518246bdb5b05@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200502160055.59288.andreak@officenet.no>
References: <200502160055.59288.andreak@officenet.no>

while you weren't looking, Andreas Joseph Krogh wrote:

> Any idea how to achieve this?

...
ORDER BY coalesce(start_date, '1900-01-01') ASC
      , coalesce(start_time, '1900-01-01') ASC;

/rls

-- 
:wq



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