That does indeed appear to be the case -- the database on the Linux server has en_CA.UTF-8 collation, while the database on the Windows server has English_Canada.1252 collation. Thanks!
Doug On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 1:04 PM, Thom Brown <t...@linux.com> wrote: > On 27 April 2011 20:28, Doug Gorley <doug.gor...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I'm running the following SQL commands on a new PostgreSQL 9.0 database, >> one on Linux, one on Windows. >> >> create table i (j varchar(4)); >> insert into i (j) values ('A'), ('E'), ('<C P'), ('F'); >> select j from i order by j asc; >> >> On the Windows server I get the following: >> >> ---- >> <C P >> A >> E >> F >> ---- >> >> On the Linux server, I get this instead: >> >> ---- >> A >> <C P >> E >> F >> ---- >> >> Can anyone tell me why the sort order would come out differently? >> >> > The collations are different on your two databases. > > Try: > > SHOW lc_collate; > > -- > Thom Brown > Twitter: @darkixion > IRC (freenode): dark_ixion > Registered Linux user: #516935 > > EnterpriseDB UK: http://www.enterprisedb.com > The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company > -- Doug Gorley | doug.gor...@gmail.com