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

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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