Re: Order by and strings

On 2/8/2010 7:09 PM, Fredric Fredricson wrote:
> Hi!
> New to the list with a question that I cannot find the answer to in
> the manual or on the internet but I suspect is trivial. If somebody
> could point me in the correct direction I would be greatful.
>
> This is what I do (condensed, of course):
> # create table tmp ( x text ) ;
> CREATE TABLE
> # insert into tmp(x) values ('a'),('c'),('-b') ;
> INSERT 0 3
> # select * from tmp order by x ;
> x
> ----
> a
> -b
> c
> (3 rows)
>

It has to do with the collation you are using
see
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/interactive/charset.html

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