[Phpmyadmin-devel] Remembering sorting order

[Madhura Jayaratne]

On Sun, Feb 2, 2014 at 6:46 PM, Marc Delisle <marc at infomarc.info> wrote:

> Le 2014-02-02 06:11, Madhura Jayaratne a écrit :
> > Hi devs,
> >
> > We currently have a feature to remember the sorting order of a table. It
> > was implemented in such a way that remembered sorting would be applied
> > both when the user is browsing the table as well as executing a select
> > statement on the table without specifying some other sorting order.
> >
> > However it is unclear whether this is the expected behavior from the
> > discussion at [1]. So I would like to know your opinion on whether we
> > should keep the current behavior or should the remembered sorting order
> > be applied only when browsing. My personal opinion is, it should be
> > limited to just browsing.
> >
> > If we decide to change the behavior, should it go to next major release
> > or next bug fix release?
> >
> > [1] http://sourceforge.net/p/phpmyadmin/bugs/4245/?page=1
> >
> > --
> > Thanks and Regards,
> >
> > Madhura Jayaratne
>
> Well, the feature is called "Remember table sorting" and does not
> specify for how long to remember. I can see good arguments for both
> sides of the interpretation.
>
> Even when entering manually a SELECT, the interpretation of wanting the
> last order can be defendable (for some users).
>

True. But as of now the sorting order is added even when the query is
different, for example when the manually entered query has a where clause.
Not sure whether that is desirable.

>
> Maybe what we need is this: when using a remembered sort order, display
> also a link that would make phpMyAdmin forget the sort order.
>
>
> +1

-- 
Thanks and Regards,

Madhura Jayaratne
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