Re: sort order - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Abraham, Danny
Subject Re: sort order
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In response to Re: sort order  (Adrian Klaver <adrian.klaver@gmail.com>)
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This is exactly what I am trying to do -
To find a CREATE DATABASE statement that will produce a database that has a binary sorting.

Thanks

Danny

-----Original Message-----
From: Adrian Klaver [mailto:adrian.klaver@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, December 12, 2011 5:53 PM
To: pgsql-general@postgresql.org
Cc: Abraham, Danny
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] sort order

On Sunday, December 11, 2011 8:17:41 am Abraham, Danny wrote:
> On PG 9.0.4, Windows, Encoding and Collate WIN1252  trying to get a
> database to sort according to the ascii order. Example:
> Select t from test order by t
> Should be exactly like
> Select t from test order by ascii(t).
>
> Can it be done? How?

Not after a database has been created.

For more info see:
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.0/interactive/locale.html
In particular LC_COLLATE.

>
> Thanks
>
> Danny

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Adrian Klaver
adrian.klaver@gmail.com


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