Proposed New sort API

[William Casarin]

David Bremner <david at tethera.net> writes:

> I started looking at William's sorting patches [1], but the
> proliferation of sorting options bugged me a bit. I decided to sketch
> out a new more flexible API.
>
> In the new API, there is is a sort "key", currently mapped one-to-one
> to value slots, but potentially could do more sophisticated things
> like making keys up dynamically (e.g. preprocessing subjects).
>
> The second parameter is a sort "type". Currently this is just
> ascending or descending, but other potential options include
> sort_by_relevance_then_value


Another thought I had that I wanted to throw out there for
consideration. It would be nice to be able to sort by "popular" threads,
aka sort by the number of messages in each thread. Not sure if this is
an easy thing to do at the query level?


Cheers,
Will