Re: Q: How ORDER BY is being done inetrnally?

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: ntufar(at)pisem(dot)net
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Q: How ORDER BY is being done inetrnally?
Date: 2004-02-02 01:06:54
Message-ID: 26179.1075684014@sss.pgh.pa.us
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"Nicolai Tufar" <ntufar(at)pisem(dot)net> writes:
> We are trying to fix another problem we have with Turkish locale.
> Order in which tuples are returned by SELECT .. ORDER BY .
> statement differs from the one returned by UNIX sort utility or
> what strcoll() function will suggest.

Text sorting depends on strcoll() and nothing but. See varstr_cmp().

regards, tom lane

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