From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Andreas <maps.on@gmx.net>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: unexpected ORDER BY
Date: Tue, 09 Nov 2010 11:10:47 -0500
Message-ID: <18805.1289319047@sss.pgh.pa.us> (raw)
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Andreas <maps.on@gmx.net> writes:
> I've got an PG 8.4 on a opensuse box running.
> The DB is unicode german.
> There is a text column I'd like to order by but as far as I see PG
> ignores special chars and uses only characters and numbers.
This is driven by the locale you're using, specifically the LC_COLLATE
setting. If you want "plain ASCII" sort order, you need to switch to
C locale.
regards, tom lane
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