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From Ken Tanzer
Subject Re: Very puzzling sort behavior
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In response to Re: Very puzzling sort behavior  (Andrew Sullivan <ajs@crankycanuck.ca>)
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On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 3:03 PM, Andrew Sullivan <ajs@crankycanuck.ca> wrote:
On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 02:54:31PM -0700, Ken Tanzer wrote:
> Thanks, but I guess I should have been clearer.  Thanks to y'all wonderful
> mailing list folks, I get it now as to why the two sorts are not the same.
> I'm hoping for practical suggestions or advice about how to get C locale
> sorting without having to rewrite all my existing queries.

Why not change the collation for the column?
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.4/interactive/sql-altertable.html


Hmm... that sounds promising.  And less drastic than rewriting the whole database.  I'll have to ponder that one, and thanks for the suggestion!

Cheers,
Ken

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