On 25/09/12 02:41, Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
> On 24.09.2012 17:24, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Heikki Linnakangas<hlinnakangas@vmware.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