From 5355ec999292b17fc2788ddb3603d0d8a71a6a1e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Adrian Holovaty Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2006 20:23:57 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Added section to docs/db-api.txt about ordering by fields in other tables git-svn-id: http://code.djangoproject.com/svn/django/trunk@2076 bcc190cf-cafb-0310-a4f2-bffc1f526a37 --- docs/db-api.txt | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/docs/db-api.txt b/docs/db-api.txt index b00bd52b88..f1dea93a14 100644 --- a/docs/db-api.txt +++ b/docs/db-api.txt @@ -273,6 +273,11 @@ so:: polls.get_list(order_by=['?']) +To order by a field in a different table, add the other table's name and a dot, +like so:: + + choices.get_list(order_by=('polls.pub_date', 'choice')) + There's no way to specify whether ordering should be case sensitive. With respect to case-sensitivity, Django will order results however your database backend normally orders them.