Peter, Thanks for answering. But it's not correct to my language pt_BR and it worked correctly with PostgreSQL at Windows and FreeBSD. I have this problem only with Debian and now I'm looking for some Debian related issue. -----Mensagem original----- De: Peter Eisentraut [mailto:peter_e@xxxxxxx] Enviada em: quinta-feira, 17 de agosto de 2006 10:04 Para: pgsql-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Cc: Erika Terahata Torres Prada e Silva - MPS Assunto: Re: [ADMIN] Issue on Varchar Ordering Erika Terahata Torres Prada e Silva - MPS wrote: > I'm having the following issue: > > create table aluno (id serial, nome varchar(60)); > > rodrigo=# select * from aluno order by nome offset 35 limit 5; > id | nome > ----+----------------------------------- > 36 | GABRIELA HELEDA DE SOUZA > 37 | GABRIELA JACOBY NOS > 38 | GABRIEL ALCIDES KLIM PERONDI > 39 | GABRIELA LETICIA BATISTA NUNES > 40 | GABRIEL ALEXANDRE DA SILVA MANICA > (5 registros) > > The problem is that records with id 38 and 40 might come before the > others. It seems that the spacing isn't considered on ordering. That is, for practical purposes, correct. May I suggest that you properly normalize your tables, by putting given name and family name into separate columns. -- Peter Eisentraut http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/
