Re: Sensitive sort problem?

The db was initialized for 4 months. And in rest I did nothing regarding the
initialization.

I solved the problem by delete/reinit the database. I really don't know what
caused this.
A day before I noticed the problem I made a "live update" for suse 8.2. I
will look also the log files, maybe I find there something.

If I found something "strange" I post it.

Thankx to all.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Stephan Szabo" <sszabo(at)megazone(dot)bigpanda(dot)com>
To: "Andrei Bintintan" <klodoma(at)ar-sd(dot)net>
Cc: "[ADMIN]" <pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Sent: Tuesday, November 25, 2003 7:53 PM
Subject: Re: [ADMIN] Sensitive sort problem?

> On Tue, 25 Nov 2003, Andrei Bintintan wrote:
>
> > I give an example:
> >
> > These are the datas from the table names:
> >
> > id n1 n2
> > 1 AaAa AaAa
> > 2 X X
> > 3 A A
> > 4 a a
> > 5 ab ab
> > 6 _Y _Y
> > 8 ..a ..a
> > 9 .x .x
> > 7 ...a ...a
> >
> > If I run: select * from names order by n1: the result is:
> >
> > id n1 n2
> > 4 a a
> > 8 ..a ..a
> > 7 ...a ...a
> > 3 A A
> > 1 AaAa AaAa
> > 5 ab ab
> > 9 .x .x
> > 2 X X
> > 6 _Y _Y
> >
> > Which I don't think that is right. I don't know what happened. But I
> > find that the ASCII char order is not respected here.
>
> As Tom said, you've probably run initdb in a locale other than "C".
> For example, I believe the above is correct for en_US.