Re: Different sort order btwn Linux and Windows

On 27 April 2011 20:28, Doug Gorley <doug(dot)gorley(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

> I'm running the following SQL commands on a new PostgreSQL 9.0 database,
> one on Linux, one on Windows.
>
> create table i (j varchar(4));
> insert into i (j) values ('A'), ('E'), ('<C P'), ('F');
> select j from i order by j asc;
>
> On the Windows server I get the following:
>
> ----
> <C P
> A
> E
> F
> ----
>
> On the Linux server, I get this instead:
>
> ----
> A
> <C P
> E
> F
> ----
>
> Can anyone tell me why the sort order would come out differently?
>
>
The collations are different on your two databases.

Try:

SHOW lc_collate;

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