On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 2:02 PM, Alvaro Herrera <alvhe...@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
> Ken Tanzer wrote: > > > Are there any other potential solutions, pitfalls or considerations that > > come to mind? Any thoughts welcome. And as I said, if there's not a > good > > way to do this I'll probably leave it alone. > > In part, it boils down to what you use the in ORDER BY clause. If you > concatenate the last name and first name, they will be considered as a > single string and run afoul of funny behavior of dictionary sorting, > which ignores non-alphanumeric chars in the first pass. But if you keep > them separate by using "ORDER BY last_name, first_name" then sorting > will consider the last name separately from first name, and you'd get > the results you want (I think). > Thanks, but I guess I should have been clearer. Thanks to y'all wonderful mailing list folks, I get it now as to why the two sorts are not the same. I'm hoping for practical suggestions or advice about how to get C locale sorting without having to rewrite all my existing queries. I still might be clinging to futile hope, but is there really no way to specify a collation for the return value of a function? And are there any pitfalls associated with pg_dump-ing into a new database with a different collation? Cheers, Ken -- AGENCY Software A Free Software data system By and for non-profits *http://agency-software.org/ <http://agency-software.org/>* *https://agency-software.org/demo/client <https://agency-software.org/demo/client>* ken.tan...@agency-software.org (253) 245-3801 Subscribe to the mailing list <agency-general-requ...@lists.sourceforge.net?body=subscribe> to learn more about AGENCY or follow the discussion.
