On Tue, 25 Nov 2003, Andrei Bintintan wrote:
> I give an example:
>
> These are the datas from the table names:
>
> id n1 n2
> 1 AaAa AaAa
> 2 X X
> 3 A A
> 4 a a
> 5 ab ab
> 6 _Y _Y
> 8 ..a ..a
> 9 .x .x
> 7 ...a ...a
>
> If I run: select * from names order by n1: the result is:
>
> id n1 n2
> 4 a a
> 8 ..a ..a
> 7 ...a ...a
> 3 A A
> 1 AaAa AaAa
> 5 ab ab
> 9 .x .x
> 2 X X
> 6 _Y _Y
>
> Which I don't think that is right. I don't know what happened. But I
> find that the ASCII char order is not respected here.
As Tom said, you've probably run initdb in a locale other than "C".
For example, I believe the above is correct for en_US.
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