From: | James Keener <jim(at)jimkeener(dot)com> |
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To: | John McKown <john(dot)archie(dot)mckown(at)gmail(dot)com> |
Cc: | "Tsunakawa, Takayuki" <tsunakawa(dot)takay(at)jp(dot)fujitsu(dot)com>, "pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: Is it possible to sort strings in EBCDIC order in PostgreSQL server? |
Date: | 2017-12-12 15:36:42 |
Message-ID: | CAG8g3tzQiwLwJ2a6UuJPCaAbm=DNeh-fHDuyQDSASxAs8rhM8Q@mail.gmail.com |
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en_US.utf8. is still 0-9A-Za-z and in my example set (as it's my default
too :))
You'd need a case insensitive collation to do what you described, and I'm
not sure those exist in postgres. (I guess you could always build your own
if you _really_ wanted to.
Jim
On Tue, Dec 12, 2017 at 10:24 AM, John McKown <john(dot)archie(dot)mckown(at)gmail(dot)com>
wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 12, 2017 at 9:11 AM, James Keener <jim(at)jimkeener(dot)com> wrote:
>
>> The default C locale on Linux (I don't know Windows) will sort "digits",
>>> then alphabetic with the lower then upper case of each letter in order
>>> like: "aAbB...zZ"
>>>
>>
>> That's no true at all! The C locales are 0-9A-Za-z
>>
>
> Thanks for the correction. Turns out that I forgot that my default locale
> on Linux was en_US.utf8.
>
>
> --
> I have a theory that it's impossible to prove anything, but I can't prove
> it.
>
> Maranatha! <><
> John McKown
>
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