Re: interesting finding on order by behaviour

From: Shianmiin Hwang <shianmiin(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: interesting finding on order by behaviour
Date: 2011-07-22 18:30:19
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On Jul 22, 12:20 pm, scott_r(dot)(dot)(dot)(at)elevated-dev(dot)com (Scott Ribe) wrote:
> On Jul 22, 2011, at 11:11 AM, Samuel Hwang wrote:
>
> > results
> > =====
> > SQL Server 2008 R2 (with case insensitive data, the ordering follows
> > ASCII order)
>
> > f1
> > ---
> > AbC
> > abc
> > ABc
> > cde
> > CdE
>
> Well, if it's case insensitive, then AbC & abc & ABc are all equal, so any order for those 3 would be correct...
>
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Sorry I didn't make it clear, the interesting part is how PostgreSQL
sorts data.

The server encoding is set to UTF8 and collation is united states.1252
The client encoding is Unicode.

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