Re: [BUGS] Error in sorting strings

2010-09-19 Thread Kevin Grittner
Edoardo Serra wrote: > SELECT * FROM dummy ORDER BY string ASC; > string > > 100% > 10.1 > (2 rows) > > I would expect the order of the results to be '100%', '10.1'. > Moreover, if I use the following dataset, I get the correct sorting > > SELECT string, ascii(substr(string, 3, 1))

[BUGS] Error in sorting strings

2010-09-19 Thread Edoardo Serra
Hi guys, I found a weird behaviour in sorting character varying columns, I think it could really be a bug. Table definition: CREATE TABLE dummy (string character varying(255)); Test dataset: INSERT INTO dummy VALUES ('10.'); INSERT INTO dummy VALUES ('100'); If I query the table sorting