"Rony Khoury" <rkrk(at)hotmail(dot)com> writes:
> Lamer I checked the parameters on my system and did not find LC_ALL nor
> LC_COLL, but I found LANG=en_US.
Indeed, you are getting en_US collation order. Try setting LANG=C and
then redoing initdb. Or, if you really have no use for non-C locale,
you could recompile Postgres without any locale support at all...
regards, tom lane