From: Stephan Szabo <sszabo@megazone23.bigpanda.com>
To: Jodi Kanter <jkanter@virginia.edu>
Cc: Postgres SQL List <pgsql-sql@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: order by
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2003 10:44:33 -0800 (PST)
Message-ID: <20030326104353.P63544-100000@megazone23.bigpanda.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <005501c2f3c3$43f8db30$de138f80@virginia.edu>
On Wed, 26 Mar 2003, Jodi Kanter wrote:
> Is there a known problem with the SQL order by clause within postgres
> version 7.2.3? I am trying to sort a field which holds file names that
> have some spaces as well non-alphanumeric characters, including
> underscores (see below).
>
> The results of:
> select study_name from study order by study_name;
>
>
> Study1a
> Study 1b
> Study 1c
> Study1d
>
>
> The results of sorting in Perl (which uses Linux's underlying sort function)
>
> Study 1c
> Study 1b
> Study1a
> Study1d
>
> Is there any way around this difference? Blank spaces should show up
> first in the sort.
Are you in "C" locale or something like "en_US"? In the latter, the first
is the "correct" ordering.
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