Index ordering in index_together and unique_together

[anonymous]

Hi,

Currently the index_together tuples do not support index ordering using + / -.

If I have the following table:

class Messages:
   user_id,
   rating,
   last_update,

   index_together=[
     ['user_id', 'rating',  'last_update',] # sorted ASC by default
  ]

So for MySQL, the following query cannot make use of the index:

Messages.objects.filter(user_id=xxx).order_by('+rating','-last_update')

Pardon me if it actually can make use of the index.

I know there are workarounds, such as negating values to make a DESC ordering become ASC ordering.
But it is just nice to have such a feature.
Btw, what is the reason for not having this feature?

[wim@…]

Hi anonymous, thanks for taking the time to fill in a ticket. Just to answer your question: most features are not implemented because people did not have time to write the code for it. :) So if you are willing to write a pull request and contribute such a feature could land in Django.

Unfortunately I do not understand MySQl enough to mark this ticket as accepted.

[Anssi Kääriäinen]

To me this seems acceptable. Of course, supporting this only on MySQL isn't good, I believe most backends support index ordering.