Hi!New to the list with a question that I cannot find the answer to in the manual or on the internet but I suspect is trivial. If somebody could point me in the correct direction I would be greatful.
This is what I do (condensed, of course):
# create table tmp ( x text ) ;
CREATE TABLE
# insert into tmp(x) values ('a'),('c'),('-b') ;
INSERT 0 3
# select * from tmp order by x ;
x
----
a
-b
c
(3 rows)
I would expect a string that start with a hyphen to be sorted before or
after 'a' and 'c' and not between them. I have tried with a few other
characters (space, opening parenthesis, etc) but the result is the same.
What I want is the strings sorted by their ascii (or UTF-8) values, without some "smart" heuristic. How do I accomplish this?
I cannot find this described in the manual (it should be there!) or on the net.
/Fredric PS. 8.2, Fedora Linux
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