Re: Very weird problem of "order by" in postgresql - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Justin Graf
Subject Re: Very weird problem of "order by" in postgresql
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In response to Very weird problem of "order by" in postgresql  ("Peter Cai" <newptcai@gmail.com>)
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This is the same problem postgresql has when doing sorting when run on  windows vs. linux.  Postgresql relies on the OS to handle collating aka sort orders.
 
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PostgreSQL uses the standard ISO C and POSIX locale facilities provided by the server operating system 

 


---- Message from "Peter Cai" <newptcai@gmail.com> at 09-08-2008 11:51:32 AM ------
Hi all,

I have 2 postgresql running on linux on 2 different physical machines.

Then I create 2 identical database on them, both using utf8 as server encoding and GBK as client encoding.

But when I try to order by some query result with a column containing Chinese characters, the result is different!!!!

One db return result in correct Chinese alphabet order but the other doesn't!

Is the problem of the configure of the operating system or the postgresql???

Thanks a lot!


PS : I read some solutions on this problem.  It seems that many people met the same order by problem and have to convert the strings to "GBK" in there sql to get correct sorted result.
I don't think this is the correct solution.

 

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