Re: data order problem

On Mon, 15 Apr 2002, jack wrote:

> Hi, Jose
>
> Suppose '_' stands for a space character. The one column table,xxx, contains
> following data.
> column name is suburb and is set as primary key.
>
> 'THE_AAA'
> 'THE_BBB'
> 'THE_CDD'
> 'THECCC'
>
> After I do
> "SELECT * FROM xxx ORDER BY suburb;"
> I've got this.
>
> 'THE_AAA'
> 'THE_BBB'
> 'THECCC'
> 'THE_CDD'
>
> But I expect it should be like ...
> 'THE_AAA'
> 'THE_BBB'
> 'THE_CDD'
> 'THECCC'
>
> Because, according to ascii code, space character should be smaller than 'C'

If you put the above data in a text file and use the sort command, I'd
expect that you get the same ordering as postgres because the machine is
probably not set to the 'C' locale, it's probably set to something like
'en_AU' which may have different sort order rules.