I can't build sql queries with dynamic column sort and sort order.

[cococov]

Due to pagination I need to make queries with different sort orders and even different column, but currently the @vercel/postgres clean my query, deleting my dynamic order.

// Works
await sql`SELECT * FROM metagame_cards ORDER BY occurrences DESC LIMIT ${query.pageSize} OFFSET ${query.page * query.pageSize}`;

// Doesn't work
await sql`SELECT * FROM metagame_cards ORDER BY ${columnSort} DESC LIMIT ${query.pageSize} OFFSET ${query.page * query.pageSize}`;

// Doesn't work
await sql`SELECT * FROM metagame_cards ORDER BY ${columnSort} ${sortOrder} LIMIT ${query.pageSize} OFFSET ${query.page * query.pageSize}`;

Is there a way to (at least in a dangerous way) do this?

[tcc-sejohnson]

We currently have a PR providing this functionality:

const orderbyColumn = identifiers('occurrences');
const orderbyDirection = sortOrder === 'DESC' ?  fragment`DESC` : fragment`ASC`;
await sql`SELECT * FROM metagame_cards ORDER BY ${orderByColumn} ${orderByDirection} LIMIT ${query.pageSize} OFFSET ${query.page * query.pageSize}`;

However, we don't know if that's going to be merged yet -- there's a good bit of security auditing to do and probably some discussions around API!

For now, you can use sql.query directly. It means you'll have to do some manual string-concatenation, which isn't the best, but it's the best workaround until something better like the above is merged!