On Friday 10 March 2006 12:36, Volkan YAZICI wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Mar 09 02:00, Yury Don wrote:
> > Looks like string comparison operators ignore spaces isnside of string.
> > Because of this sorting on text fields is wrong.
> >
> > mdb=# select 'a z'::text>'ad'::text;
> > ?column?
> > ----------
> > t
>
> PostgreSQL relies on your locale for collation. Therefore, first you
> need to check if your locale settings are working. For instance:
>
> $ TEXT="a z\nad"
> $ echo -e $TEXT | LC_COLLATE=tr_TR.iso88599 sort
> ad
> a z
> $ echo -e $TEXT | LC_COLLATE=C sort
> a z
> ad
>
>
> Regards.
>
My locale is KOI8-R and sorting in PostgreSQL corresponds to sorting in
locale. I just didn't expect that sorting will be this way ...
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Best regards,
Yury Don
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