id,node_id,number,title,user,state,locked,assignee,milestone,comments,created_at,updated_at,closed_at,author_association,pull_request,body,repo,type,active_lock_reason,performed_via_github_app,reactions,draft,state_reason
1161969891,I_kwDOBm6k_c5FQkDj,1654,Adopt a code of conduct,9599,closed,0,,,5,2022-03-07T22:00:24Z,2022-03-07T22:19:35Z,2022-03-07T22:19:35Z,OWNER,,"This is long overdue, especially given the size of the project now.",107914493,issue,,,"{""url"": ""https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/datasette/issues/1654/reactions"", ""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",,completed
1161937073,I_kwDOBm6k_c5FQcCx,1653,Mechanism to default a table to sorting by multiple columns,9599,open,0,,,2,2022-03-07T21:20:11Z,2022-03-07T21:23:39Z,,OWNER,,"### Discussed in https://github.com/simonw/datasette/discussions/1652

<div type='discussions-op-text'>

<sup>Originally posted by **zaneselvans** March  7, 2022</sup>
It's easy to tell datasette to sort tables using a single column, as [described in the docs](https://docs.datasette.io/en/stable/metadata.html#setting-a-default-sort-order):

```yaml
databases:
  ferc1:
    tables:
      f1_edcfu_epda:
        sort: created_time
```

But is there some way to tell it to sort using a composite key, like you would in an `ORDER BY` clause instead? For example, the way it's being done **[in this query](https://data.catalyst.coop/ferc1?sql=select%0D%0A++rowid%2C%0D%0A++respondent_id%2C%0D%0A++report_year%2C%0D%0A++spplmnt_num%2C%0D%0A++row_number%2C%0D%0A++row_seq%2C%0D%0A++row_prvlg%2C%0D%0A++acct_num%2C%0D%0A++depr_plnt_base%2C%0D%0A++est_avg_srvce_lf%2C%0D%0A++net_salvage%2C%0D%0A++apply_depr_rate%2C%0D%0A++mrtlty_crv_typ%2C%0D%0A++avg_remaining_lf%2C%0D%0A++report_prd%0D%0Afrom%0D%0A++f1_edcfu_epda%0D%0Awhere%0D%0A++respondent_id+%3D+210%0D%0A++AND+report_year+%3D+2020%0D%0Aorder+by%0D%0A++report_year%2C+report_prd%2C+respondent_id%2C+spplmnt_num%2C+row_number%0D%0Alimit%0D%0A++1000)** on our Datasette?

```sql
SELECT
  respondent_id,
  report_year,
  spplmnt_num,
  row_number,
  row_seq,
  row_prvlg,
  acct_num,
  depr_plnt_base,
  est_avg_srvce_lf,
  net_salvage,
  apply_depr_rate,
  mrtlty_crv_typ,
  avg_remaining_lf,
  report_prd
FROM
  f1_edcfu_epda
WHERE
  respondent_id = 210
  AND report_year = 2020
ORDER BY
  report_year, report_prd, respondent_id, spplmnt_num, row_number
LIMIT
  1000
```

The problem here is that by default it's using `rowid` (the SQLite assigned autoincrementing integer key) to order the records, but the table **should** have a natural composite primary key, but the original database that this data is being migrated from doesn't enforce unique primary keys, so there are dupes, and we don't want to drop those rows, and the records are somehow getting jumbled in the database (the `rowid` ordering isn't lined up with the expected ordering based on the composite primary key, though it's close) and this jumbling is confusing to users that expect to see the data ordered based on the natural primary key.

I've tried setting the `sort` metadata parameter to a list of column names, a tuple of column names, a quoted string of comma-separated column names, a quoted string of a tuple of column names...

```yaml
databases:
  ferc1:
    tables:
      f1_edcfu_epda:
        sort: ""(report_year, report_prd, respondent_id, spplmnt_num, row_number)""
```

and they all give me server errors like:

```
Cannot sort table by (report_year, report_prd, respondent_id, spplmnt_num, row_number)
```</div>",107914493,issue,,,"{""url"": ""https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/datasette/issues/1653/reactions"", ""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",,
1160750713,I_kwDOBm6k_c5FL6Z5,1650,Implement redirects from old % encoding to new dash encoding,9599,closed,0,,3268330,5,2022-03-06T23:40:02Z,2022-03-07T19:26:15Z,2022-03-07T19:26:14Z,OWNER,,"> One big advantage to this scheme is that redirecting old links to `%2F` pages (e.g. https://fivethirtyeight.datasettes.com/fivethirtyeight/twitter-ratio%2Fsenators) is easy - if you see a `%` in the `raw_path`, redirect to that page with the `%` replaced by `-`.

_Originally posted by @simonw in https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1439#issuecomment-1060044007_",107914493,issue,,,"{""url"": ""https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/datasette/issues/1650/reactions"", ""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",,completed
1160432941,PR_kwDOBm6k_c4z_p6S,1648,Use dash encoding for table names and row primary keys in URLs,9599,closed,0,,,7,2022-03-05T19:50:45Z,2022-03-07T15:38:30Z,2022-03-07T15:38:30Z,OWNER,simonw/datasette/pulls/1648,"Refs #1439.

- [x] Build `dash_encode` / `dash_decode` functions
- [x] Use dash encoding for row primary keys
- [x] Use dash encoding for `?_next=` pagination tokens
- [x] Use dash encoding for table names in URLs
- [x] Use dash encoding for database name
- ~~Implement redirects from previous `%` URLs that replace those with `-`~~ - separate issue: #1650",107914493,pull,,,"{""url"": ""https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/datasette/issues/1648/reactions"", ""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",0,