Re: Sort order with spaces?

Kristian Jörg wrote:

>
>
> 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!

Woops, a type above. My sql is of course:
select * from mytable where normtext>= 'LU' order by normtext;

>
> Regards
> Kristian
>
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