#28657: Strangely odd behaviour when ordering QuerySet by BooleanField.
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     Reporter:  Leonardo Arroyo      |                    Owner:  nobody
         Type:  Bug                  |                   Status:  closed
    Component:  Database layer       |                  Version:  1.11
  (models, ORM)                      |
     Severity:  Normal               |               Resolution:  invalid
     Keywords:  queryset, boolean,   |             Triage Stage:
  order, ordering                    |  Unreviewed
    Has patch:  0                    |      Needs documentation:  0
  Needs tests:  0                    |  Patch needs improvement:  0
Easy pickings:  0                    |                    UI/UX:  0
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Changes (by Tim Graham):

 * status:  new => closed
 * resolution:   => invalid


Comment:

 My hunch is that PostgreSQL is "at fault", not Django. When you execute
 `order_by()` with a boolean field, the results with the same value (`True`
 or `False`) are ordered randomly. If you want a deterministic order, you
 could do something like `.order_by('closed', 'pk')`.

 In the future, please see TicketClosingReasons/UseSupportChannels to help
 confirm a bug before creating a ticket.

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