Re: Different sort order - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Gregory Stark
Subject Re: Different sort order
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Msg-id 87d50kkdvr.fsf@oxford.xeocode.com
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In response to Different sort order  (Poul Møller Hansen <freebsd@pbnet.dk>)
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Poul Møller Hansen <freebsd@pbnet.dk> writes:

> I'm wondering why the sort order on these two servers behaves differently.
> The only difference I can see is that one is using a 32.bits Ubuntu and the
> other is on 64bits versions of Ubuntu.
> But why this difference ?

Try on both servers:

  show lc_collate

Unfortunately you have to initdb to set the locale. You can't set it per
database or change it once it's initialized.


This one looks like en_US or something similar:

> mydb=# select * from test order by felt1;
> felt1 --------
> test1
> test_1
> test2
> test_2
> test3
> test_3
> (6 rows)
>

And this one looks like C:

> mydb=# select * from test order by felt1;
> felt1 --------
> test1
> test2
> test3
> test_1
> test_2
> test_3
> (6 rows)


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