Re: Sort order with spaces?

Tom Lane wrote:

>=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Kristian_J=F6rg?= <krjg(at)devo(dot)se> writes:
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>>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...
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>You didn't do it right then ...
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>7.2's initdb is not helpful about telling you exactly what locale
>settings it's using, but you could use the contrib/pg_controldata
>utility to check what LC_COLLATE and LC_CTYPE settings got used.
>(If you don't want to build pg_controldata, "strings
>$PGDATA/global/pg_control" will do as a rough-and-ready substitute.)
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Unfortunately I am using a binary distribution from a RPM package, so I
don't have the source. Tried the strings stuff though and that worked. I
have sv_SE as locale for sure. So you are corect. I did not do initdb
correctly. Shame on me... :-)

>Theoretically it should work to do
> export LC_COLLATE=C
> export LC_CTYPE=C
> initdb
>but if you have LANG or other LC_xxx values in your environment,
>it's possible that there is some conflict.
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> regards, tom lane
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It is possible my locale settings did not get through to initdb since I
tried using the startup postgres command in /etc/init.d (with som
modifications of course). I will try again manually this time!

Regards Kristian

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