Re: BUG #6056: sorting issues

On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 06:52, Mike Hepworth
<michael(dot)w(dot)hepworth(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> Bug reference:      6056
> Logged by:          Mike Hepworth
> Email address:      michael(dot)w(dot)hepworth(at)gmail(dot)com
> PostgreSQL version: 8.4
> Operating system:   Ubuntu 10.4
> Description:        sorting issues
> Details:
>
> Have database that is utf-8 encoding so that I can support both english,
> french, and spanish.  Having problems with the ordering of data.
>
> I execute the following sql statment:
>
> select * from (values('HALL, ANDY'),('HALLBERG, FRANK'),('HALLDEN,
> DOUGLAS'),('HALL, DOUGLAS') ) x ORDER BY 1;
>
> and get the following results
>
> HALL, ANDY
> HALLBERG, FRANK
> HALLDEN, DOUGLAS
> HALL, DOUGLAS

What locale did you use? Sort order depends on not only
encoding but also collation. Please check "SHOW lc_collate".
Your locale seems to just ignore symbol characters.
I have an expected result at least in C locale.

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Itagaki Takahiro