Re: to --enable-locale or not to --enable-locale? - Mailing list pgsql-admin

Hrm, a big RTFM to myself.  :)
>"The sort order used within a particular database cluster is set
>by initdb and cannot be changed later, short of dumping all data,
>rerunning initdb, and reloading the data."

Well I changed LC_ALL to LATIN1 and run initdb, dumped back all the
data, but the sorting order seem to wrong still, allthough different,

pg_controldata shows:
LC_COLLATE:                           C
LC_CTYPE:                             C

Now I get the data sorted in the order below, quite close though:

 aa
 ab
 aä
 aå
 aö
 ba
 bb
 bä
 bå
 bö
 za
 zö
 äa
 äb
 åa
 åb

The å and ä are sorted in the wrong order.
Where can I see the order of the charset?

Regards,
Niclas Gustafsson


-----Original Message-----
From: pgsql-admin-owner@postgresql.org
[mailto:pgsql-admin-owner@postgresql.org] On Behalf Of Niclas Gustafsson
Sent: den 25 mars 2002 12:47
To: 'Oliver Elphick'
Cc: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [ADMIN] to --enable-locale or not to --enable-locale?


Hi,

I am sure that 1) is correct, allthough I think I've overlooked 2)!
pg_controldata reports: (last 2 rows)
LC_COLLATE:                           en_US
LC_CTYPE:                             en_US

Is it possible to change this after you've run initdb?

Regards,
Niclas Gustafsson


-----Original Message-----
From: pgsql-admin-owner@postgresql.org
[mailto:pgsql-admin-owner@postgresql.org] On Behalf Of Oliver Elphick
Sent: den 25 mars 2002 12:26
To: Niclas Gustafsson
Cc: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [ADMIN] to --enable-locale or not to --enable-locale?


On Mon, 2002-03-25 at 11:14, Niclas Gustafsson wrote:
> Hi, I'm having trouble sorting my data.
>
> I'm using PostgresQL 7.2 compiled with:
> --enable-multibyte=LATIN1 --enable-locale
...
> Then I've inserted some test values which seem to be sorted wrongfully
> when I issue an
> select * from sorttest order by data
...
> I want it sorted in abcd..zåäö
> What am I missing here? Any Ideas?

1. Does the locale you are using sort as you want?

2. Did you initdb with that locale set?  (Use pg_controldata from
contrib to see what locale the backend is using.)  locale must be set
correctly for initdb, to ensure that indexes don't get broken by changes
of locale.

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