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From Yury Don
Subject BUG #2309: Wrong string comparison
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Msg-id 20060309140053.ED78CF0B08@svr2.postgresql.org
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Responses Re: BUG #2309: Wrong string comparison  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Re: BUG #2309: Wrong string comparison  (Volkan YAZICI <yazicivo@ttnet.net.tr>)
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The following bug has been logged online:

Bug reference:      2309
Logged by:          Yury Don
Email address:      yura@vpcit.ru
PostgreSQL version: 8.1.3
Operating system:   Linux (Debian)
Description:        Wrong string comparison
Details:

Looks like string comparison operators ignore spaces isnside of string.
Because of this sorting on text fields is wrong.

mdb=# select 'a z'::text>'ad'::text;
 ?column?
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 t

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