Thank's Tom Lane & Stephan Szabo for pointing out the problem to me.
After some testing it turned out that the swedish locale, 'sv_SE', doesn't
handle sorting spaces as expected, which probably made the SELECT fail. On
the other hand, if I use the 'C' locale, the SELECT works but not the sort
ord
By "our system" I mean the software that uses the database. It is a quit old
software written in C that has been ported a couple of times to different
*NIX platforms using different DBMS's. It uses in-house developed functions
that, depending on parameters, creates a variety of SQL statements that
Hello,
I've encountered a strange behavior in postgres 7.2.1 regarding how psql
handles strings ending with space characters.
If I want to search for records where the first column (artnrgrpmtrln_1)
begins with
'201901 ', our system that uses the database creates the following SQL
statement:
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