Re: Distinct oddity

On Sat, May 9, 2009 at 10:33 AM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> That only proves that adding the 'e' changes the sort order, which is
> completely unsurprising for any non-C locale. What you need to do is
> dump out the *entire* results of the DISTINCT queries and look for the
> unmatched lines. I'd try dumping to two files, stripping the 'e' with
> sed, and then sort/diff.

How could adding an "e" change the sorting of "Österreich/Welt (Ltg.)"
compared to "Šsterreichisches Verkehrsb ro AG" in de_DE or en_US (or
any locale)?

It's also odd that the "1. Mittelschule ..." line is getting sorted after those.

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Glenn Maynard