Re: Order by with spaces and other characters

From: Tomasz Myrta <jasiek(at)klaster(dot)net>
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Order by with spaces and other characters
Date: 2008-10-25 10:06:17
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mike stanton napisal 24.10.2008 21:03:
> Hello everyone.
> We have a simple problem...that we have keys that include blanks and
> various other commonly used characters like ",", ";" and "-". For some
> reason, the select we have, nothing complicated, ignores these "special"
> characters and happily sorts by the A-z range. How do we sort by the,
> say ascii 32-125 range?
> This must be a known issue; perhaps we need to configure a parameter.

Sorting behavior depends on database locale. You can override it and
make Postgres sort output data binary with "ORDER BY xxx USING ~<~"
It's default when database is initialized with "C" locale.

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Regards,
Tomasz Myrta

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