Re: Issues with LC_COLLATE, across 8.3/8.4 on various platforms

It seems that libc's behaviour regarding LC_COLLATE in Linux/FreeBSD are two different stories, hence the seen results.
(Switching LC_COLLATE between en_US.UTF-8 and POSIX, in FreeBSD it does not have any impact on orderring while in Linux does)
I think i have resolved the issue, so the solution boils down to setting LC_COLLATE=C in our linux central production postgresql server.
What is the shortest way to change the default locale on a production installation running PostgreSQL-8.3.9?
Is there anything less painful than dump, initdb,restore?
I know 8.4 allows for per-db locale settings, i am just asking if there is a way to solve the issue now without waiting till
the migration to 8.4

Thanx!

Στις Tuesday 02 February 2010 14:26:44 ο/η Achilleas Mantzios έγραψε:
> Hi, i have the following problem, text ordering seems to behave incosistently across various lc_collate values, OS'es, PostgreSQL versions.
> Some behaviour might be expected, some not, thats why i am asking to see where i stand with this.
> Test Data
> postgres(at)dynacom=# SELECT * from test_sort_order;
> fooname
> -------------------------
> Cylinder head cover No1
> Cylinder Liner No1
> Cylinder head No1
> (3 rows)
>
> Now the query
> # SELECT * from test_sort_order order by fooname;
> in PostgreSQL 8.3.7 on x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu (lc_collate=en_US.UTF-8) gives
> fooname
> -------------------------
> Cylinder head cover No1
> Cylinder head No1
> Cylinder Liner No1
>
> while in all of
> PostgreSQL 8.3.3 on i686-pc-linux-gnu (lc_collate=C)
> PostgreSQL 8.3.7 (lc_collate=el_GR.UTF-8) on i386-unknown-freebsd6.3
> PostgreSQL 8.4.1 on x86_64-unknown-freebsd8.0 (lc_collate=en_US.UTF-8), gives
> fooname
> -------------------------
> Cylinder Liner No1
> Cylinder head No1
> Cylinder head cover No1
>
> Database encoding is SQL_ASCII in all four cases.
>
> --
> Achilleas Mantzios
>

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