Re: Sort order with spaces?

Richard Huxton wrote:

>On Wednesday 17 September 2003 10:47, Kristian Jörg wrote:
>
>
>>Hello!
>>
>>I am having troubles with sort order in Postgres. It seems that space is
>>not handled at all?
>>For instance the following rows are sorted in MS SQL Server as:
>>
>>LUNDGREN
>>M L R
>>MACDOWELL
>>MUSCLE
>>
>>But in Postgres I get this order:
>>
>>LUNDGREN
>>MACDOWELL
>>M L R
>>MUSCLE
>>
>>
>
>Sort order depends upon your locale settings (specifically LC_COLLATE), which
>will have been set when you ran "initdb". Basically, sort orders for C ,
>en_GB and fr will all be different. I'm guessing you expect "C" style
>sorting.
>
>Check the end of your postgresql.conf file to see what settings you currently
>have.
>See the manuals (Localization section) and list archives for plenty of
>details.
>
>

Hi Richard!

Unfortunately this does not seem to help! I dumped the database,
recreated the cluster with initdb with LC_COLLATE = C (and even tried
setting LC_CTYPE to C also), and restored the database. The same
ordering appears...
I did look through all the manuals and I noted that the method for
setting locale is different for 7.2 and 7.3, so I followed the 7.2 docs.
My postgres version is 7.2.

The table keeps the data above in a column named "NORMTEXT" and my SQL
statement for the result above is:
select * from mytable where NORMTEXT >= 'LU'
Nothing out of the ordinary there..
Any help on this matter is highly appreciated!

Regards
Kristian

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