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and avoid errors caused by sorting alphabetical instance name which can be `null` (#13585)
When loading current ids, sort by stream ID so that we don't want to overwrite the `current_position` of an instance to a lower stream ID than we're actually at ([discussion](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/pull/13585#discussion_r951795379)). Previously, it sorted alphabetically by instance name which can be `null` and throw errors but more importantly, accomplishes nothing.
Fixes the following startup error which is why I started looking into this area:
```
$ poetry run synapse_homeserver --config-path homeserver.yaml
****************************************************************
Error during initialisation:
'<' not supported between instances of 'NoneType' and 'str'
There may be more information in the logs.
****************************************************************
```
Somehow my database ended up looking like the following, notice the `instance_name` is `null` in the db, and we can't sort `NoneType` things. Another question is why do we see the `instance_name` as `null` sometimes instead of `master` in monolith mode?
```
$ psql synapse
synapse=# SELECT * FROM stream_positions;
stream_name | instance_name | stream_id
-----------------+---------------+-----------
account_data | master | 1242
events | master | 1787
to_device | master | 58
presence_stream | master | 485638
receipts | master | 341
backfill | master | -139106
(6 rows)
synapse=# SELECT instance_name, stream_id FROM receipts_linearized;
instance_name | stream_id
---------------+-----------
| 211
| 3
| 4
| 212
| 213
| 224
| 228
| 164
| 313
| 253
| 38
| 321
| 324
| 189
| 192
| 193
| 194
| 195
| |
