Ron <ronljohnsonjr(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> It looked like the tables were being backed up in alphanumeric order, but
> now I see that table "docformat" is being dumped *after* "doc_image".
Looks like standard C-locale (ASCII) sort order to me ...
> Are there some other rules besides alphabetical sorting?
Dependencies can override the normal sort order, though a dependency
directly between two tables is rare.
regards, tom lane