| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | "Domingo Alvarez Duarte" <mingodad(at)gmail(dot)com> |
| Cc: | pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: BUG #4338: Order by seems to trim some characters before sort |
| Date: | 2008-08-02 15:20:04 |
| Message-ID: | 3627.1217690404@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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"Domingo Alvarez Duarte" <mingodad(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> It seems that postgresql is issuing a kind of trim on the column value
> before sort/compare, because it's ignoring spaces and '-' wich I use
> propositally to move some values to front.
> Why postgresql is behaving this way ?
Because the LC_COLLATE setting is telling it to. If you try sorting
the same data with sort(1) I'll bet you get the same result. This
is standard behavior for quite a lot of locale settings.
If you don't like the result then you need to switch to a different
locale setting, probably "C". Unfortunately, that requires dump,
re-initdb with the correct locale option, reload :-(
regards, tom lane
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