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From: Samuel Gendler <sgendler@ideasculptor.com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Ozer, Pam <pozer@automotive.com>
Cc: emilu@encs.concordia.ca
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Sorting Issue
Date: Tue, 10 May 2011 10:45:03 -0700
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On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 9:47 AM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:

> "Ozer, Pam" <pozer@automotive.com> writes:
> > Isn't this the English standard for collation?  Or is this a non-c
> > locale as mentioned below?  Is there anyway around this?
>
> >        LC_COLLATE = 'en_US.utf8'
>
> en_US is probably using somebody's idea of "dictionary order", which
> I believe includes ignoring spaces in the first pass.  You might be
> happier using "C" collation.  Unfortunately that requires re-initdb'ing
> your database (as of existing PG releases).
>


ugh. So what's the initdb incantation necessary to sort the way I'd expect
an alphabetic sort to happen?  I'm literally just in the process of bringing
up a new project, so it's a perfect opportunity for me to get this set up
correctly to begin with.  THe default on my system was definitely
en_US.utf8.

--sam

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