| From: | Gavin Flower <GavinFlower(at)archidevsys(dot)co(dot)nz> |
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| To: | Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnakangas(at)vmware(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Selena Deckelmann <selena(at)chesnok(dot)com>, Noah Misch <noah(at)leadboat(dot)com>, Greg Smith <greg(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Configuration include directory |
| Date: | 2012-09-24 19:13:59 |
| Message-ID: | 5060B0F7.8050206@archidevsys.co.nz |
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On 25/09/12 02:41, Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
> On 24.09.2012 17:24, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Heikki Linnakangas<hlinnakangas(at)vmware(dot)com> writes:
>>> This seems pretty much ready to commit. One tiny detail that I'd
>>> like to
>>> clarify: the docs say:
>>
>>>> Multiple files within an include directory are ordered by an
>>>> alphanumeric sorting, so that ones beginning with numbers are
>>>> considered before those starting with letters.
>>
>>> To be more precise, the patch uses strcmp() for the comparisons.
>>
>> Just say it sorts the file names according to C locale rules.
>
> Hmm, that's preceise, but I don't think an average user necessarily
> knows what the C locale is. I think I'll go with:
>
> Multiple files within an include directory are processed in filename
> order. The filenames are ordered by C locale rules, ie. numbers before
> letters, and uppercase letters before lowercase ones.
>
> - Heikki
>
>
Even I can understand that! :-)
More to the point: are fullstops '.' sorted before digits?
Cheers,
Gavin
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