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Originally Posted by kovidgoyal
@chaley: title_sort was actually introduced for performance reasons so that the title_sort function would not have to be called for each entry every time a sort on the title field was requested. That's why it isn't editable  |
I agree that it should be there. What I object to is not being able to change it (that trigger is very persistent). For example, it is rather hard to get the book 'A is for Alibi' to sort where it goes -- under 'A' instead of under 'is'.
Instead of the trigger, I would rather title_sort operate like author_sort, giving me a default value but letting me change it in edit metadata. I haven't proposed/built this up to now because it could be that I am just weird and no one else cares.