Re: ORDER BY Problem... - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Reinoud van Leeuwen
Subject Re: ORDER BY Problem...
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Msg-id 1194.194.109.0.126.991830565.squirrel@webmail2.xs4all.nl
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In response to ORDER BY Problem...  (Severin Olloz <S.Olloz@soid.ch>)
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> Hello...
> 
> Why does Postgresql order the uppercase letters first?
> 
> I have e.g. a table with one row an in this row there are follow
> values:
> 
> row1
> ----
> ADC
> aa
> ABC
> 
> With this select-syntax 
> 
> select * from table order by row1
> 
> I become this output
> 
> ABC
> ADC
> aa
> 
> but I want this ouptut:
> 
> aa
> ABC
> ADC
> 
> What do I wrong?

This will not solve your problem, but a way around this is to sort on upper
(row1):

# select * from test order by col1;col1
------ABCDADAbc
(3 rows)

# select * from test order by upper(col1);col1
------AbcABCDAD
(3 rows)




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