Re: Case sensitive order by - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Case sensitive order by
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Msg-id 13754.1050094452@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Case sensitive order by  (Deepak Joglekar <deepak.joglekar@nebula-soft.com>)
Responses Re: Case sensitive order by  (Dennis Gearon <gearond@cvc.net>)
Re: Case sensitive order by  (Deepak Joglekar <deepak.joglekar@nebula-soft.com>)
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Deepak Joglekar <deepak.joglekar@nebula-soft.com> writes:
> I want to do case sensitve sorting on a varchar field.

> That is I will have strings in the varchar field which will have
> character from ascii(32) to ascii(255). I want sort result by ascii
> values.

If you want a straight-ASCII sort without any funny locale sort rules,
you need to be careful to initdb in C locale.

            regards, tom lane


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