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From: Kristian Jörg <krjg@devo.se>
To: Kristian Jörg <krjg@devo.se>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Richard Huxton <dev@archonet.com>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Sort order with spaces?
Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2003 17:21:05 +0200
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Tom and Richard,

I have successfully fixed this problem now thanks to your support! The 
setting of LC_COLLATE to C prior to running initdb fixed all problems 
finally once I had sorted out my error in passing the environment 
variables correctly.

Thanx!
/Kristian

Kristian Jörg wrote:

>
>
> Tom Lane wrote:
>
>>=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Kristian_J=F6rg?= <krjg@devo.se> writes:
>>  
>>
>>>Unfortunately this does not seem to help! I dumped the database, 
>>>recreated the cluster with initdb with LC_COLLATE = C (and even tried 
>>>setting LC_CTYPE to C also), and restored the database. The same 
>>>ordering appears...
>>>    
>>>
>>
>>You didn't do it right then ...
>>
>>7.2's initdb is not helpful about telling you exactly what locale
>>settings it's using, but you could use the contrib/pg_controldata
>>utility to check what LC_COLLATE and LC_CTYPE settings got used.
>>(If you don't want to build pg_controldata, "strings
>>$PGDATA/global/pg_control" will do as a rough-and-ready substitute.)
>>  
>>
> Unfortunately I am using a binary distribution from a RPM package, so 
> I don't have the source. Tried the strings stuff though and that 
> worked. I have sv_SE as locale for sure. So you are corect. I did not 
> do initdb correctly. Shame on me... :-)
>
>>Theoretically it should work to do
>>	export LC_COLLATE=C
>>	export LC_CTYPE=C
>>	initdb
>>but if you have LANG or other LC_xxx values in your environment,
>>it's possible that there is some conflict.
>>
>>			regards, tom lane
>>
> It is possible my locale settings did not get through to initdb since 
> I tried using the startup postgres command in /etc/init.d (with som 
> modifications of course). I will try again manually this time!
>
> Regards Kristian
>
>>.
>>
>>  
>>
>
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