Tsunakawa, Takayuki wrote: > It is embarrassing to ask such a thing, but is there any way to sort character column values in EBCDIC order inside the PostgreSQL server? > i.e. is it possible to use EBCDIC collation in PostgreSQL, say, by using ICU or something? We need to run on a certain mainframe. > > I see almost no hope from the following, but let me make sure. That should not be too difficult. PostgreSQL is extensible! Just define operators that implement <, <=, =, >= and > for EBCDIC, create an operator class for these (for indexing) and use ORDER BY ... USING. Yours, Laurenz Albe