From: Christoph Haller <ch@rodos.fzk.de>
To: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: case sensitive/insensitive confusion
Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2005 12:44:13 +0100
Message-ID: <41FF6B8D.E1010AEA@rodos.fzk.de> (raw)
References: <41FF50CE.76CEB361@rodos.fzk.de>
<200502011114.00969.peter_e@gmx.net>
Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>
> 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/
>
Under hpux I see
pg_controldata $PGDATA
...
LC_COLLATE: C
LC_CTYPE: C
Under linux I see
pg_controldata $PGDATA
...
LC_COLLATE: en_US
LC_CTYPE: en_US
That explains the confusion, even to me.
Thanx to Peter for the quick reply.
Regards, Christoph
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