Re: CF app feature request

On Sun, Dec 23, 2018 at 3:59 PM Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
wrote:

> On 2018-Dec-23, Magnus Hagander wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Nov 21, 2018 at 12:52 AM Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)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".

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