Re: BUG #6495: mis-sorting on string field consisting of space-padded numbers

Hello

2012/2/28 <lou(at)paprikash(dot)com>:
> The following bug has been logged on the website:
>
> Bug reference:      6495
> Logged by:          Lou Duchez
> Email address:      lou(at)paprikash(dot)com
> PostgreSQL version: 9.1.2
> Operating system:   Fedora 16, CentOS 5
> Description:
>
> Download the following file and feed it into psql:
>
> http://www.paprikash.com/lou/missorttest.sql
>
> Then run the command:
>
> select * from missorttest order by hiercode;
>
> Each "hiercode" entry contains concatenations of numbers, where each number
> is left-padded to take exactly four characters.  PostgreSQL is sorting as if
> the padding were on the right.  As a result, "   2  10" is coming before "
> 2   2", even though a literal sorting of the string should put "   2   2"
> first (because chr 32 comes before chr 49).
>
> More info: this error does not occur on the Windows build of PostgreSQL.
> Also, I compile my own versions of PostgreSQL on Fedora and CentOS, taking
> all the defaults.
>

This should not be bug - this behave depends on system libraries and
locales setting.

Please, check value of lc_collate variable

postgres=> show lc_collate;
lc_collate
-------------
en_US.UTF-8
(1 row)

different collations should have different order.

Regards

Pavel Stehule

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