Doug
On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 1:04 PM, Thom Brown <thom@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 27 April 2011 20:28, Doug Gorley <doug.gorley@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:I'm running the following SQL commands on a new PostgreSQL 9.0 database, one on Linux, one on Windows.
create table i (j varchar(4));
insert into i (j) values ('A'), ('E'), ('<C P'), ('F');
select j from i order by j asc;
On the Windows server I get the following:
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<C P
A
E
F
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On the Linux server, I get this instead:
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A
<C P
E
F
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Can anyone tell me why the sort order would come out differently?The collations are different on your two databases.Try:SHOW lc_collate;
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