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Re: Collation in ORDER BY not lexicographical

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On Tue, 2009-09-29 at 03:21 -0600, Scott Marlowe wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 2:52 AM, Paul Gaspar <devlist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> > We have big problems with collation in ORDER BY, which happens in binary
> > order, not alphabetic (lexicographical), like:.
> >
> > A
> > B
> > Z
> > a
> > z
> > Ä
> > Ö
> > ä
> > ö
> >
> 
> > PG is running on Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6 Intel.
> 
> I seem to recall there were some problem with Mac locales at some
> point being broken.  Could be you're running into that issue.

Yes, the UTF8 locales on BSD systems (Mac OS X, FreeBSD, etc.) are
dysfunctional.  Either switch to a non-UTF8 locale or a different
operating system.


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