"Andrus" <eetasoft@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > Maybe there is some setting which I can use to inform Postgres that sorting > order is strictly by single byte, not affected by byte sequences. AFAIK, C/POSIX is the *only* commonly used locale in which that holds. Do you have a counterexample? (Hint: all the other ones use dictionary sorting rules, which have at least a discrimination against spaces.) regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: explain analyze is your friend