On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 10:56:02PM +0100, Guido Neitzer wrote: > Hi. > > I have a problem with the use of PostgreSQL on Mac OS X (10.4.x) and > selects with "order by". When there are german umlauts in the column > which is used to order, the sorted result is wrong. PostgreSQL should get the same results as the command-line sort for the same values of LC_COLLATE. However, the value is fixed at initdb time so maybe that's what's confusing you. However, MacOS X inherited FreeBSDs locale setup, which is fairly lame. They've made many improvements though so your problem should be fixable. BTW, you didn't actually say what locale you where using... Have a nice day, -- Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@xxxxxxxxx> http://svana.org/kleptog/ > Patent. n. Genius is 5% inspiration and 95% perspiration. A patent is a > tool for doing 5% of the work and then sitting around waiting for someone > else to do the other 95% so you can sue them.
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