On Thu, Oct 24, 2024 at 9:06 AM Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> This business with a textual representation of a sort clause seems like > over-engineering ... except that it's also under-engineered, because > the parsing is lame and incomplete. (No USING option, and the fact > that collation comes from somewhere else seems impossibly confusing.) > Let's drop that. > I can accept this outcome though an optional three-valued boolean sort order (ascending and descending only) I'd argue is worth keeping. null value placement too I guess, three-valued boolean (nulls_first). David J.