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From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Possible bug in Postgres String comparison routines
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Msg-id 13740.1004018645@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Possible bug in Postgres String comparison routines  (Peter Breton <pbreton@MIT.EDU>)
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Peter Breton <pbreton@MIT.EDU> writes:
> Is there something that I'm not understanding here, or is this a bug?

What locale are you using?  Non-C locales have sorting rules more
complex than you seem to be expecting.

$ cat data
e
,
ke
k,
ken
k,
kens
k, P
ens
, P
$ LANG=C sort data
,
, P
e
ens
k,
k,
k, P
ke
ken
kens
$ LANG=en_US.iso88591 sort data
e
ens
ke
ken
kens
k,
k,
k, P
,
, P
$

            regards, tom lane

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