Many thanks! That clarifies things well. Jimmy On Wed, Apr 8, 2020, at 11:49 AM, Adrian Klaver wrote: > On 4/8/20 7:35 AM, Jimmy Thrasher wrote: <snip> > > Am I missing something about how sorting works? > > I believe you are looking for 'C' collation: > > test=# select unnest(array[('> N' collate "C") , ('< S' COLLATE "C")]) > as s order by s; > > s > ----- > < S > > N > (2 rows) > > > For more information see: > > https://www.postgresql.org/docs/12/collation.html