Re: ORDER BY Problem... - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From teg@redhat.com (Trond Eivind Glomsrød)
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In response to RE: ORDER BY Problem...  ("Christopher Kings-Lynne" <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au>)
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"Christopher Kings-Lynne" <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au> writes:

> As far as I know, this is the standard (ASCII-ordered) way of sorting text.

No, it's the "we don't know anything about text, but we can compare
their numeric values" approach.  

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Trond Eivind Glomsrød
Red Hat, Inc.


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