numeric SORT order - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Ben Ausden
Subject numeric SORT order
Date
Msg-id 4174BB57B89ED411A8BB000102A30F51406155@NAVY
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List pgsql-general
Hi,


Is there any way to persuade postgresql to sort a VARCHAR column in numeric
order first, and then text order?

e.g

1, 2, 3, 10, 20, 25, 30, 40

instead of:

1, 10, 2, 20, 25, 3, 30, 40


From looking at the docs it seems that sort order is determined by the
locale settings. Is this right, and would setting my locale to en_US cause
postgres to use a different sort order?


thanks,
ben

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