I imagine some ORMs don't have this so people can do order by computed columns like "order by assets - liabilities" To your point it probably makes sense to ha

I imagine some ORMs don't have this so people can do order by computed columns like "order by assets - liabilities" To your point it probably makes sense to have an order method that verifies column names and an order_raw method that takes a string so the caller understands the risk, while protecting the usual case.