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Date: Fri, 30 May 2008 10:43:45 +0700
From: Theerasak Maneeneim <theerasak@thns.co.th>
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Subject: String comparison problem.
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Dear All,

             I have some problem with string comparison. I use 
postgresql 8.3.1,UTF8 encoding, on CentOS 5.5. Why dose the result of  
SQL statement :  "select '1.1' < '101';" is false but "select 
'1.1'::bytea < '101'::bytea;" is ture?


mis=# select '.' < '0';
?column?
----------
t
(1 row)



mis=# select '1.' < '10';
?column?
----------
t
(1 row)



mis=# select '1.1' < '101';
?column?
----------
f
(1 row)


mis=# select '1.1'::text < '101'::text;
?column?
----------
f
(1 row)


mis=# select '1.1'::bytea < '101'::bytea;
?column?
----------
t
(1 row)


Thank you very much.