Received: from maia.hub.org (unknown [200.46.204.183]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 92573632EE5 for ; Tue, 1 Sep 2009 19:32:09 -0300 (ADT) Received: from mail.postgresql.org ([200.46.204.86]) by maia.hub.org (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.183]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 21599-04 for ; Tue, 1 Sep 2009 22:32:01 +0000 (UTC) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.6 Received: from out02.mta.xmission.com (out02.mta.xmission.com [166.70.13.232]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1DE6B632DFB for ; Tue, 1 Sep 2009 19:32:02 -0300 (ADT) Received: from in01.mta.xmission.com ([166.70.13.51]) by out02.mta.xmission.com with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1MibtP-0005ZI-Nt; Tue, 01 Sep 2009 16:31:59 -0600 Received: from [208.187.158.94] (helo=[172.16.1.225]) by in01.mta.xmission.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1MibtP-0001GM-IB; Tue, 01 Sep 2009 16:31:59 -0600 Message-ID: <4A9DA0DD.7010606@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 01 Sep 2009 16:31:57 -0600 From: Rob Sargent User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (X11/20090817) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Scott Marlowe CC: "pgsql-sql@postgresql.org" Subject: Re: Odd sort behaviour References: <4A9D8BC4.30906@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-XM-SPF: eid=; ; ; mid=; ; ; hst=in01.mta.xmission.com; ; ; ip=208.187.158.94; ; ; frm=robjsargent@gmail.com; ; ; spf=neutral X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 208.187.158.94 X-SA-Exim-Rcpt-To: scott.marlowe@gmail.com, pgsql-sql@postgresql.org, robjsargent@gmail.com X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: robjsargent@gmail.com X-SA-Exim-Version: 4.2.1 (built Thu, 25 Oct 2007 00:26:12 +0000) X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on in01.mta.xmission.com); Unknown failure X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.599 tagged_above=-10 required=5 tests=BAYES_00=-2.599 X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 200909/7 X-Sequence-Number: 33072 How many ways might one accidentally do that I wonder. Scott Marlowe wrote: > On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 3:01 PM, Rob Sargent wrote: > >> Since when does "." sort as "nothing at all" >> > > Since you set your locale equal to something like en_US instead of C >