Re: select fails on indexed varchars. - Mailing list pgsql-bugs

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: select fails on indexed varchars.
Date
Msg-id 29529.980520325@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to select fails on indexed varchars.  (Alex Krohn <alex@gossamer-threads.com>)
Responses Re: select fails on indexed varchars.
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Alex Krohn <alex@gossamer-threads.com> writes:
> [postgres@penguin pgsql]$ locale
> LANG=en_US
> LC_CTYPE="en_US"
> LC_NUMERIC="en_US"
> LC_TIME="en_US"
> LC_COLLATE="en_US"
> LC_MONETARY="en_US"
> LC_MESSAGES="en_US"
> LC_ALL=en_US
> [postgres@penguin pgsql]$

> Postmaster is running as user pgsql. Any ideas on workarounds?

Use locale "C" unless you have a really good reason why you need
en_US sorting order.

Beware of changing the postmaster's locale on the fly, however,
since that will leave you with corrupted (out-of-order) indexes.
Safest to dump/initdb in new locale/reload.

            regards, tom lane

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