On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 4:00 PM, Guillaume Lelarge <guilla...@lelarge.info> wrote: > On Thu, 2011-06-16 at 15:50 +0100, Dave Page wrote: >> On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 3:45 PM, Guillaume Lelarge >> <guilla...@lelarge.info> wrote: >> > Hi, >> > >> > On Thu, 2011-06-16 at 08:54 -0500, Little, Douglas wrote: >> >> [...] >> >> >> >> I’d like to request that the query data grid incorporate the column >> >> sort controls often available in data grids. >> >> >> > >> > That would be interesting. >> >> Unlikely to ever happen though, as we'd have to re-sort the data in >> the PGresult structure that's used as a virtual table for the grid. >> Avoiding that would mean copying the data into a private data >> structure first, as we used to do in v1.2 and older (or whatever the >> last release was before we changed that). That has a host of other >> problems associated with it, and we're not going back to those days! >> >> >> Would eliminate the need to rerun the query to change order, or >> >> cut/paste results to excel to sort. >> > >> > Nope, that would not change. It'll fire the query anyway, it would only >> > change the ORDER BY clause. >> >> That's the Heath-Robinson approach. It would be *extremely* hard to do >> reliably as it would have to rewrite user defined queries. >> > > I thought we were talking about the edit grid, not the query tool. I may > be wrong.
The Edit Grid already has sorting. -- Dave Page Blog: http://pgsnake.blogspot.com Twitter: @pgsnake EnterpriseDB UK: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company -- Sent via pgadmin-support mailing list (pgadmin-support@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgadmin-support
