Tom Lane writes: > > But alphabetical? According to whose definition of the alphabet? > > It looks like NAME comparison uses strcmp (actually strncmp). So it'll > be numeric byte-code order. > > There's no particular reason we couldn't make that be strcoll instead, > I suppose, except perhaps speed.
But how will this work when we have per-column/datum collation order? And what about languages that don't have any useful collation order for their alphabets (far east)? ISTM that a globally viable feature of this sort would have to sort by something numeric. -- Peter Eisentraut [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/users-lounge/docs/faq.html
