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Today I Learned: Django

queryset default ordering is no
ordering
Rui Rei Sep 9 · 1 min read

Just so other people don’t make the same mistake as I did, I simply want to
emphasize that the order of a queryset that does not contain an explicit
.order_by() clause (and its model doesn’t have a default ordering defined
in its Meta ) is database-dependent. In other words, it’s arbitrary and can’t
be relied upon.

Although this is properly detailed in the Django docs (picture below), I

somehow managed to miss it and wrongly assumed that the elements
would be returned in PK order. If your code depends on the order of a
queryset’s elements, you must either use an explicit .order_by() clause or
add an ordering option to the model’s Meta . I strongly advise against the

latter though, as it may reduce readability and violates the principle of least
astonishment (because the ordering is “hidden” in a different location from
where the queryset is created).

Django Django Queryset Python

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(guide) https://docs.nginx.com/nginx/admin-guide/content-
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(guide) https://www.nginx.com/blog/nginx-caching-guide/

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