Re: BUG #6642: Spanish collation fault

Thank you very much Álvaro,

As far as I understood from someone who knows about ;) "...the SQL
standard indicates to order according the first column and consider the
second column only for those records which first column has identical order
values..."

The bug I refer to is that first column is FINALLY ordered for character
value -not the order value which the collation requests.

"León", "leon", "leOn" has identical order values: none of them weights
more for Spanish collation and PG is not working according it if PG makes a
"second pass" that ignores collation and reorders by its character value.
Best Regards

Tulio

On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 2:20 PM, Alvaro Herrera
<alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>wrote:

>
> Excerpts from tulio.carrasco's message of mar may 15 21:45:00 -0400 2012:
>
> > In Spanish every vowel has the same precedence value even with or without
> > any type of accent, so: a = á = ä = A = Á = Ä
>
> > In which due dad column has the same value it uses the mum column and if
> > they also have the same value then it should use the name column.
>
> I see your point, and it makes sense, but it just doesn't work that way.
>
> The way it works is that it goes over the first column and does the two
> passes (first ignoring accents, second considering them) over it using
> the collating rules you describe; and once that is complete, it goes to
> look at the second column. I don't think it's possible at all to
> implement what you suggest, which is to make the first pass over all the
> columns and then the second pass over all the columns.
>
> I didn't try, but if you were to do an ORDER BY dad || ' ' || mum ' ' ||
> name
> I think it should do what you want. (Not really sure the spaces are
> necessary). Because then you're sorting on a single string and it can
> do the first pass on the whole thing and then the second pass.
>
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