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From: Robert Voinea <robert.voinea@topex.ro>
To: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
Cc: Kevin Grittner <Kevin.Grittner@wicourts.gov>
Subject: Re: Weird sorting order
Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2010 08:23:13 +0300
Message-ID: <201007190823.14092.robert.voinea@topex.ro> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4C40359E0200002500033711@gw.wicourts.gov>
References: <201007161514.09960.robert.voinea@topex.ro>
	<4C40359E0200002500033711@gw.wicourts.gov>

On Friday 16 July 2010 18:34:06 Kevin Grittner wrote:
> Robert Voinea <robert.voinea@topex.ro> wrote:
> > Why is it that when running the query:
> > 
> > SELECT * FROM test ORDER BY val;
> > 
> > I get the following result?
> > 
> >  id |  val
> > 
> > ----+-------
> > 
> >   1 | 200
> >   2 | 201
> >   3 | 202
> >   4 | 203
> >   5 | 210
> >   6 | 211
> >   7 | 2##23
> >   8 | 2##24
> >   9 | 2##25
> >  
> >  10 | 2##33
> >  11 | ##26
> >  12 | 2ff
> >  13 | ##31
> >  14 | ##32
> >  15 | ##34
> > 
> > (15 rows)
> > 
> > Shouldn't value '2ff' be placed right after '211' but before
> > '2##23'?
> 
> That depends on your collation configuration.  What do you get
> from?:
> 
> show lc_collate;
> 
> In many collations, special characters such as '#' are ignored.

=> show lc_collate;
 lc_collate  
-------------
 en_US.UTF-8

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