Re: stable sort for list views in the admin interface

On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 10:55 AM, Andrew Ball <anball@gmail.com> wrote:

I've noticed that in Django 1.1 when I sort based on a column in the admin interface's list view for one of my models and then sort by a different column, the second result set is no longer sorted based on the first column selected.  This means that the sorting algorithm used is not a stable sorting algorithm.  Does anyone know how to go about making the admin interface use a stable sorting algorithm instead?  I'm capable of implementing a stable sorting algorithm in Javascript, but don't know where to start to find the code that actually performs the sorting when I click on a column in the list view.

Sort in the admin is implemented via order_by:

http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/models/querysets/#order-by-fields

Thus, the actual sort is done by the database.

Karen

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