Re: Enhancement request - Data Grid sort controls

On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 3:45 PM, Guillaume Lelarge
<guillaume@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.

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