Re: RES: Issue on Varchar Ordering

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Erika Terahata Torres Prada e Silva - MPS <erika(dot)prada(at)previdencia(dot)gov(dot)br>
Cc: pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: RES: Issue on Varchar Ordering
Date: 2006-08-18 13:54:17
Message-ID: 20060818135417.GI32181@alvh.no-ip.org
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Erika Terahata Torres Prada e Silva - MPS wrote:
> OS Debian 3.1
>
> Show lc_collate:
>
> "pt_BR.ISO-8859-1"
>
> It returns:
> GABRIELA HELEDA DE SOUZA
> GABRIELA JACOBY NOS
> GABRIEL ALCIDES KLIM PERONDI
> GABRIELA LETICIA BATISTA NUNES
> GABRIEL ALEXANDRE DA SILVA MANICA
>
> The correct would be:
>
> GABRIEL ALCIDES KLIM PERONDI
> GABRIEL ALEXANDRE DA SILVA MANICA
> GABRIELA HELEDA DE SOUZA
> GABRIELA JACOBY NOS
> GABRIELA LETICIA BATISTA NUNES
>
> As I told you, with OS Windows, it works correctly...

Strange. I'm using Debian unstable here and it works fine, i.e., just
as you expect. This sounds like a glibc bug to me; one corrected after
3.1. (Is that Sarge? I don't know the version numbers.)

What version of the libc6 package do you have installed? I have 2.3.6-18 here.

$ LC_MESSAGES=C dpkg -l libc6
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Description
+++-=======================-=======================-==============================================================
ii libc6 2.3.6-18 GNU C Library: Shared libraries

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