On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 4:04 PM, Wim Lewis <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On 30 Jul 2013, at 2:06 PM, Florian Apolloner wrote:
>> How do you think such support would look like? For negative indices you'd 
>> have to know the size of the resultset to be able to do "limit somthing 
>> offset length-your_negative_index" -- this doesn't seem to make any sense 
>> for an ORM. You can always do list(qs)]:-1] though…
>
> It seems like the first comment in the ticket answers that question. Django 
> would reverse the sense of the query's ordering clause and use a simple LIMIT.

This would only work if the ordering specified were total.  If it were
not a total ordering, then I believe there is no guarantee that the
DESC order will simply be the reverse of the ASC order.

-- 
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups 
"Django developers" group.
To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email 
to [email protected].
To post to this group, send email to [email protected].
Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers.
For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.


Reply via email to