Re: String Comparision Weirdness

From: Tobias Brox <tobias(at)nordicbet(dot)com>
To: Stephan Szabo <sszabo(at)megazone(dot)bigpanda(dot)com>
Cc: Tobias Brox <tobias(at)nordicbet(dot)com>, pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: String Comparision Weirdness
Date: 2005-09-26 19:11:25
Message-ID: 20050926191125.GA5679@tobias.lan
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[Stephan Szabo - Mon at 06:07:48AM -0700]
> It's more likely to be the locale in use. For example, on my machine,
> given a file with -1 and 0.
(...)
> LANG="en_US" sort file
> 0
> -1

Hah, those Americans don't even know how to count ;-)

I find this weird, but it's clearly not a problem with postgresql at least.
We should obviously check up the locale and stick to "C" on the servers.

Thanks for the effort.

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