Issue on Varchar Ordering

From: "Rodrigo Hjort" <rodrigo(dot)hjort(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Issue on Varchar Ordering
Date: 2006-03-29 15:04:36
Message-ID: 731083980603290704j63aa8d38s4dda54ce97d2e495@mail.gmail.com
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Pg-Hackers,

I'm having the following issue:

create table aluno (id serial, nome varchar(60));

rodrigo=# select * from aluno order by nome offset 35 limit 5;
id | nome
----+-----------------------------------
36 | GABRIELA HELEDA DE SOUZA
37 | GABRIELA JACOBY NOS
38 | GABRIEL ALCIDES KLIM PERONDI
39 | GABRIELA LETICIA BATISTA NUNES
40 | GABRIEL ALEXANDRE DA SILVA MANICA
(5 registros)

The problem is that records with id 38 and 40 might come before the others.
It seems that the spacing isn't considered on ordering.
The encoding (LATIN1) is correct according to Brazilian Portuguese, and the
settings are listed below.

rodrigo=# select name, setting from pg_settings where name ~
'encoding|^lc_|version';
name | setting
-----------------+---------
client_encoding | LATIN1
lc_collate | pt_BR
lc_ctype | pt_BR
lc_messages | pt_BR
lc_monetary | pt_BR
lc_numeric | pt_BR
lc_time | pt_BR
server_encoding | LATIN1
server_version | 8.1.3
(9 registros)

The server is a Debian 3.1 GNU/Linux with locales pt_BR.

What could be wrong? Thanks in advance.

--
Regards,

Rodrigo Hjort
GTI - Projeto PostgreSQL
CELEPAR - Cia de Informática do Paraná
http://www.pr.gov.br

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