Re: Sort order with spaces?

Tom and Richard,

I have successfully fixed this problem now thanks to your support! The
setting of LC_COLLATE to C prior to running initdb fixed all problems
finally once I had sorted out my error in passing the environment
variables correctly.

Thanx!
/Kristian

Kristian Jörg wrote:

>
>
> Tom Lane wrote:
>
>>=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Kristian_J=F6rg?= <krjg(at)devo(dot)se> writes:
>>
>>
>>>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...
>>>
>>>
>>
>>You didn't do it right then ...
>>
>>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.)
>>
>>
> 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.
>>
>> regards, tom lane
>>
> 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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