Ashutosh Bapat <ashutosh.bapat@enterprisedb.com> writes:
> On Thu, Mar 3, 2016 at 7:27 AM, Michael Paquier <michael.paquier@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>> Per explain.c, this looks inconsistent to me. Shouldn't NULLS LAST be
>> applied only if DESC is used in this ORDER BY clause?
> ... In this case we are constructing a query to be
> sent to the foreign server and it's better not to leave the defaults to be
> interpreted by the foreign server; in case it interprets them in different
> fashion. get_rule_orderby() also explicitly adds these options.
Yeah, I agree that we don't need to go out of our way to make the query
succinct here. Explicitness is easier and safer too, so why not?
regards, tom lane