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From Andrei Bintintan
Subject Re: Sensitive sort problem?
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Msg-id 022a01c3b373$45fc4f00$0b00a8c0@andy
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In response to Sensitive sort problem?  ("Andrei Bintintan" <klodoma@ar-sd.net>)
Responses Re: Sensitive sort problem?  (Stephan Szabo <sszabo@megazone.bigpanda.com>)
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I give an example:
 
These are the datas from the table names:
 
id   n1   n2  
1   AaAa    AaAa  
2    X     X  
3    A     A  
4   a    a  
5   ab    ab  
6   _Y    _Y  
8   ..a    ..a  
9   .x    .x  
7   ...a    ...a
 
If I run: select * from names order by n1: the result is:
 
id   n1   n2  
4   a    a  
8   ..a    ..a  
7   ...a    ...a  
3    A     A  
1   AaAa    AaAa  
5   ab    ab  
9   .x    .x  
2    X     X  
6   _Y    _Y  
 
Which I don't think that is right. I don't know what happened. But I find that the ASCII char order is not respected here.
 
I have another machine on which the result is okay....I don't have a clue.
 
Andy.
 
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Tuesday, November 25, 2003 6:21 PM
Subject: Re: [ADMIN] Sensitive sort problem?

PostgreSQL 7.3.x and anything below has never had case insensitive sorting - period.
I can't speak for the new 7.4 version?
 
If you want to add a case insensitive data type try this:
 
 
Regards
Donald Fraser.
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Tuesday, November 25, 2003 3:04 PM
Subject: [ADMIN] Sensitive sort problem?

Hi to everyone,
 
I don't know exactly if i'm sending my problem in the right place, hope you can help me.
 
I use postgresql db. 7.3.2.
 
Today I noticed that my database does not sort "case sensitive" anymore. If I have a query like:
Select name from names order by name  -- the names are not resulted as they should. 'ax' is after 'Aa' and so one.
 
I don't know since when is this problem I noticed it just now. I use Suse 8.2 and yesterday evening I made a live update. Could this be the problem? I restored the system and ... the problem remains.
 
I also have another linux system, there the db works fine.
 
Does anyone has any ideea???? Are there any settings for something like this?
 
Thnkx.
Andy.
 

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