On Sun, Dec 23, 2018 at 3:59 PM Alvaro Herrera <alvhe...@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
> On 2018-Dec-23, Magnus Hagander wrote: > > > On Wed, Nov 21, 2018 at 12:52 AM Michael Paquier <mich...@paquier.xyz> > > wrote: > > > > > On Tue, Nov 20, 2018 at 03:30:38PM -0300, Alvaro Herrera wrote: > > > > On 2018-Nov-20, Tom Lane wrote: > > > > Certainly not higher than having the dropdown for entry > author/reviewer > > > > be sorted alphabetically ... *wink* *wink* > > > > > > More *wink* *wink* > > > > Here's a slightly late response to that winking :P > > > > They *are* sorted. By lastname. Should I take all this winking to mean > that > > people would prefer them being sorted by firstname? :) > > Oh, wow. That's not at all obvious ... the fact that there's Scherbaum > as the first entry, and Wang at the fifth position, threw me off. > Oh, there isn't, there's "ads Scherbaum" as his last name. I'm pretty sure he does that just to mess with people. And for the second one, it's Alexandra... But yes, I agree it's confusing, especially when you start mixing in cultures that may not have firstname/lastname working in the way that we do in the western world. I can find entries easily enough knowing this. But I think it would > make more sense to order by the complete string that makes up the name. > Ok, I've pushed a change to do first_name sorting instead. Let's see if that causes less or more confusion :) But it will at least match the "full string sorting". -- Magnus Hagander Me: https://www.hagander.net/ <http://www.hagander.net/> Work: https://www.redpill-linpro.com/ <http://www.redpill-linpro.com/>
