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Special:Categories is unsorted in PostgreSQL
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Author: sven

Description:
Currently the Special:Categories lists the categories completely unsorted. It
would be nice if the categories were sorted.


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Severity: normal

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bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Medium.Nov 21 2014, 9:34 PM
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sven wrote:

patch to sort the entries in Special:Categories

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Thanks, fixed in r18240. Also patched SpecialUnusedCategories.php

Apparently, mysql does an implicit sort, so this was working until Postgres was
used.

jeluf wrote:

closing, since no reason was given for the re-opening.

sven wrote:

Reopening because the patch has been reverted in r18458.

Attempted a different approach with r18771.

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Migrating from the old tracking task to a tag for PostgreSQL-related tasks.