Re: Some questions about file handling + some other things

On Wed, Mar 24, 2021 at 04:42:58PM -0400, John P. Rouillard wrote:
> >> across multiple items. Anydbm I'll bet is currently broken since it
> >> would use a string sort order not an integer/number sort order in its
> >> sorting calls.
> >
> >No, the regression-test tests that.
> 
> Well at the very least the test testMultilinkOrdering: "all backends
> should return the Multilink numeric-id-sorted" is commented out.

Ouch, I haven't looked too closely but thought that all the basic data
types were tested.

> >order by (lower(_someclass._title) is not NULL),lower(_someclass._title)
> >
> >So its perfectly fine to put NULL values first or last. And it doesn't
> >need many changes to make it work.
> 
> Does that form the tuples like: (TRUE,"A real title"), (FALSE,None) So
> you can sort FALSE first or last then subsort TRUE to get it ordered
> by title?

Yes, except that "A real title" is converted to lowercase.

Ralf
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