Is this "order by" logic right

[Josué Maldonado]

Hello list,

The query has the following in the where:

UPPER(cty_Name) LIKE 'NEW%' ORDER BY cty_name

it returns the data in this way:

Newark
Newark
New Britain
Newburgh
New Cannan
New Castle
Newcomerstown

The table has index on cty_name (btree), I'll appreciate any comments or
suggestions about it.

Thanks

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Josué Maldonado.

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[Stephan Szabo]

On Wed, 24 Sep 2003, [ISO-8859-1] Josué Maldonado wrote:

Hello list,

The query has the following in the where:

UPPER(cty_Name) LIKE 'NEW%' ORDER BY cty_name

it returns the data in this way:

Newark
Newark
New Britain
Newburgh
New Cannan
New Castle
Newcomerstown

The table has index on cty_name (btree), I'll appreciate any comments or
suggestions about it.

You haven't given your locale or system type, but this seems reasonably
if you're in a locale that generally ignores spaces (for example my redhat
machine does so in en_US). If you want byte order sorting, you'll
probably need to re-initdb with LC_COLLATE set to "C"
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[Josué Maldonado]

Hi Stephan,

Stephan Szabo wrote:

On Wed, 24 Sep 2003, [ISO-8859-1] Josué Maldonado wrote:
You haven't given your locale or system type, but this seems reasonably
if you're in a locale that generally ignores spaces (for example my redhat
machine does so in en_US). If you want byte order sorting, you'll
probably need to re-initdb with LC_COLLATE set to "C"

The db was initialized with the defaults in postgresql.conf, so the
locale is en_US. Any idea how to change it?

--
Josué Maldonado.

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[Stephan Szabo]

On Wed, 24 Sep 2003, [ISO-8859-1] Josué Maldonado wrote:

Hi Stephan,

Stephan Szabo wrote:

On Wed, 24 Sep 2003, [ISO-8859-1] Josué Maldonado wrote:
You haven't given your locale or system type, but this seems reasonably
if you're in a locale that generally ignores spaces (for example my redhat
machine does so in en_US). If you want byte order sorting, you'll
probably need to re-initdb with LC_COLLATE set to "C"

The db was initialized with the defaults in postgresql.conf, so the
locale is en_US. Any idea how to change it?

Unfortunately, the only real way to change the collation right now is to
re-initdb with LC_COLLATE set to something else in the environment. The
index order for btree indexes is dependant on the collation order so
changing it after the fact would be bad. This does mean dumping and
reloading or some kind of replication to get the data between the old
system and new.
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[Dennis Gearon]

What should we comment on?

翽 wrote:

Hello list,

The query has the following in the where:

UPPER(cty_Name) LIKE 'NEW%' ORDER BY cty_name

it returns the data in this way:

Newark
Newark
New Britain
Newburgh
New Cannan
New Castle
Newcomerstown

The table has index on cty_name (btree), I'll appreciate any comments
or suggestions about it.

Thanks

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