Hibernate order by with nulls last

Question

Hibernate used with PostgreSQL DB while ordering desc by a column puts null values higher than not null ones.

SQL99 standard offers keyword \"NULLS LAST\" to declare

Answer 1

You can configure "nulls first" / "nulls last" in hibernate properties so it will be picked up by any criteria call by default: hibernate.order_by.default_null_ordering=last (or =first).

See this hibernate commit for details.