Re: termlist_begin ordering in older versions
Olly Betts <[email protected]> Fri, 1 Dec 2023 18:48:44 +0000
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On Fri, Dec 01, 2023 at 11:26:34AM +0000, Eric Wong wrote:
> Hey, I noticed commit 145503bbe4a5bf702cd13cb2e592111e8d7ca89a
> (Reimplement Database and WritableDatabase, 2017-10-05) added
> the phrase:
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> "The terms are returned ascending string order (by byte value)"
>
> for termlist_begin. Is that also true for the 1.4 (or even 1.2) series?
It's always been true - this is just better documented now.
I've copied that note over to the 1.4 branch.
> Also, is allterms_begin also the same w.r.t. ordering?
Yes. I've added that note there too.
Cheers,
Olly