Received: from maia.hub.org (maia-3.hub.org [200.46.204.243]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A2C61337BD0 for ; Mon, 9 May 2011 18:29:41 -0300 (ADT) Received: from mail.postgresql.org ([200.46.204.86]) by maia.hub.org (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.243]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 78006-01-6 for ; Mon, 9 May 2011 21:29:33 +0000 (UTC) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.6 Received: from sss.pgh.pa.us (sss.pgh.pa.us [66.207.139.130]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A20F7133740B for ; Mon, 9 May 2011 18:29:03 -0300 (ADT) Received: from sss2.sss.pgh.pa.us (tgl@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by sss.pgh.pa.us (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id p49LSYim004548; Mon, 9 May 2011 17:28:34 -0400 (EDT) To: Samuel Gendler cc: emilu@encs.concordia.ca, "Ozer, Pam" , pgsql-sql@postgresql.org Subject: Re: Sorting Issue In-reply-to: References: <216FFB77CBFAEE4B8EE4DF0A939FF1D14F85F1@mail-001.corp.automotive.com> <4DC84284.4000903@encs.concordia.ca> <216FFB77CBFAEE4B8EE4DF0A939FF1D14F85F7@mail-001.corp.automotive.com> <4DC845EC.1020806@encs.concordia.ca> <216FFB77CBFAEE4B8EE4DF0A939FF1D14F85F8@mail-001.corp.automotive.com> <4DC850CC.50409@encs.concordia.ca> Comments: In-reply-to Samuel Gendler message dated "Mon, 09 May 2011 14:08:41 -0700" Date: Mon, 09 May 2011 17:28:34 -0400 Message-ID: <4547.1304976514@sss.pgh.pa.us> From: Tom Lane X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.91 tagged_above=-5 required=5 tests=BAYES_00=-1.9, T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD=-0.01 X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 201105/57 X-Sequence-Number: 35341 Samuel Gendler writes: > It's not at all clear why they are not coming out of the db in > alphabetically sorted order when the query includes "order by > VehicleTrimAbbreviated asc" Usually the thing to ask at this point is "what's the database's LC_COLLATE setting"? Non-C locales often have truly bizarre sorting rules. regards, tom lane