Re: Distinct oddity

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Maximilian Tyrtania <maximilian(dot)tyrtania(at)onlinehome(dot)de>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Distinct oddity
Date: 2009-05-10 02:58:22
Message-ID: 20090510025822.GD5365@alvh.no-ip.org
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Maximilian Tyrtania wrote:
> am 08.05.2009 16:55 Uhr schrieb Rob Sargent unter robsargent(at)rocketmail(dot)com:

> > and what locale are you running in?
>
> lc_collate | de_DE
> | Shows the collation order locale.
> lc_ctype | de_DE
> | Shows the character classification and case conversion locale.
>
> The encoding is UTF-8.

Note that the de_DE locale uses Latin9 encoding, which is incompatible
with UTF8. I'd try checking if the problem is reproducible in
de_DE.utf8 (you need to create a new database for testing, obviously).
If it's not, then the incompatible locale definition is causing the
problem.

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Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
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