On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 11:45 AM, Samuel Gendler <sgend...@ideasculptor.com> wrote: > > > On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 9:47 AM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: >> >> "Ozer, Pam" <po...@automotive.com> writes: >> > Isn't this the English standard for collation? Or is this a non-c >> > locale as mentioned below? Is there anyway around this? >> >> > LC_COLLATE = 'en_US.utf8' >> >> en_US is probably using somebody's idea of "dictionary order", which >> I believe includes ignoring spaces in the first pass. You might be >> happier using "C" collation. Unfortunately that requires re-initdb'ing >> your database (as of existing PG releases). > > > ugh. So what's the initdb incantation necessary to sort the way I'd expect > an alphabetic sort to happen? I'm literally just in the process of bringing > up a new project, so it's a perfect opportunity for me to get this set up > correctly to begin with. THe default on my system was definitely > en_US.utf8.
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