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9415	QuerySet.order_by() should be chainable	Joey Wilhelm	nobody	"I have a case where it would be very convenient to be able to call order_by() multiple times, appending to the order by clause with each successive call; i.e.,
{{{
#!python
foo = Model.objects.all().order_by('field1')
if bar:
    foo = foo.order_by('-field2')
}}}
Currently, the second call to order_by() explicitly overrides the previous order. This is not the behavior I would expect, as most (all?) other methods on a QuerySet are chainable.

If it is decided that chaining will not be allowed with order_by(), then I think that this fact should at least be documented. Had I not been printing out my connection's queries when I ran into this problem, it may have taken me some time to figure out exactly what was going on."	Uncategorized	closed	Database layer (models, ORM)	1.0	Normal	wontfix			Design decision needed	1	1	0	0	0	0