Re: to --enable-locale or not to --enable-locale?

From: Oliver Elphick <olly(at)lfix(dot)co(dot)uk>
To: Niclas Gustafsson <niclas(dot)gustafsson(at)codesense(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: to --enable-locale or not to --enable-locale?
Date: 2002-03-25 11:25:48
Message-ID: 1017055549.1334.151.camel@linda
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On Mon, 2002-03-25 at 11:14, Niclas Gustafsson wrote:
> Hi, I'm having trouble sorting my data.
>
> I'm using PostgresQL 7.2 compiled with:
> --enable-multibyte=LATIN1 --enable-locale
...
> Then I've inserted some test values which seem to be sorted wrongfully
> when I issue an
> select * from sorttest order by data
...
> I want it sorted in abcd..zåäö
> What am I missing here? Any Ideas?

1. Does the locale you are using sort as you want?

2. Did you initdb with that locale set? (Use pg_controldata from
contrib to see what locale the backend is using.) locale must be set
correctly for initdb, to ensure that indexes don't get broken by changes
of locale.

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