#9415: QuerySet.order_by() should be chainable
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          Reporter:  Tarken                        |         Owner:  nobody
            Status:  closed                        |     Milestone:        
         Component:  Database layer (models, ORM)  |       Version:  1.0   
        Resolution:  wontfix                       |      Keywords:        
             Stage:  Design decision needed        |     Has_patch:  1     
        Needs_docs:  1                             |   Needs_tests:  0     
Needs_better_patch:  0                             |  
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Changes (by mtredinnick):

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

Comment:

 No, the current behaviour is deliberate. The reason is that chaining for
 ordering would actually behave very counter-intuitively, since ordering is
 left-to-right sensitive in terms of "most significant" to "least
 significant". Things added after the initial ordering end up having almost
 no effect on the result, because the leading ordering terms dominate.

 I don't see it as really common enough that the major ordering is going to
 be added in one place and minor tweaking of the far right, inisignificant
 terms will happen later that it's worth complicating the UI here.

 A docs patch would be fine (in another ticket so that we can review it in
 isolation), but the current behaviour is quite intentional and it would be
 counter-productive to change it.

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