Re: Weird sorting order

On Friday 16 July 2010 18:34:06 Kevin Grittner wrote:
> Robert Voinea <robert(dot)voinea(at)topex(dot)ro> wrote:
> > Why is it that when running the query:
> >
> > SELECT * FROM test ORDER BY val;
> >
> > I get the following result?
> >
> > id | val
> >
> > ----+-------
> >
> > 1 | 200
> > 2 | 201
> > 3 | 202
> > 4 | 203
> > 5 | 210
> > 6 | 211
> > 7 | 2##23
> > 8 | 2##24
> > 9 | 2##25
> >
> > 10 | 2##33
> > 11 | ##26
> > 12 | 2ff
> > 13 | ##31
> > 14 | ##32
> > 15 | ##34
> >
> > (15 rows)
> >
> > Shouldn't value '2ff' be placed right after '211' but before
> > '2##23'?
>
> That depends on your collation configuration. What do you get
> from?:
>
> show lc_collate;
>
> In many collations, special characters such as '#' are ignored.

=> show lc_collate;
lc_collate
-------------
en_US.UTF-8

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