X-Original-To: pgsql-sql-postgresql.org@localhost.postgresql.org Received: from localhost (unknown [200.46.204.144]) by svr1.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F3D328B9E42 for ; Tue, 1 Feb 2005 10:14:05 +0000 (GMT) Received: from svr1.postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (av.hub.org [200.46.204.144]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 45756-07 for ; Tue, 1 Feb 2005 10:14:00 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.gmx.net (imap.gmx.net [213.165.64.20]) by svr1.postgresql.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 157CD8B9E6A for ; Tue, 1 Feb 2005 10:14:01 +0000 (GMT) Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 01 Feb 2005 10:14:01 -0000 Received: from dsl-082-082-239-049.arcor-ip.net (EHLO colt.pezone.net) (82.82.239.49) by mail.gmx.net (mp005) with SMTP; 01 Feb 2005 11:14:01 +0100 X-Authenticated: #495269 From: Peter Eisentraut To: Christoph Haller Subject: Re: case sensitive/insensitive confusion Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2005 11:14:00 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.7.1 Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org References: <41FF50CE.76CEB361@rodos.fzk.de> In-Reply-To: <41FF50CE.76CEB361@rodos.fzk.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-2" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200502011114.00969.peter_e@gmx.net> X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at hub.org X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.05 tagged_above=0 required=5 tests=FORGED_RCVD_HELO X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 200502/19 X-Sequence-Number: 20130 Christoph Haller wrote: > It seems to me under hpux the sort is done case sensitive, > as would one expect on SQL_ASCII encoding, whereas > under linux a case insensitive sort is done. The sort order depends entirely on the locale that you specify to initdb (not the encoding). Please check the documentation there. -- Peter Eisentraut http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/