Check your locale settings. The en_US locale sorts like that for
example...
On Thu, Sep 16, 2004 at 04:00:43AM -0500, Paramveer.Singh@trilogy.com wrote:
> Hi!
> I created a table in postgres with varchar values in it, and I noticed that
> postgres lexicographical ordering is weird in the sense that it ignores
> whitespaces.
> please look at the result I got:
>
> select * from tablename order by columnname;
> cloumnname
> -------------------------------------
> one 1
> one 1
> one 12
> one 2
> one 30
> (5 rows)
> This means that 'one<space>1' and 'one<space><space>1' are the same
> lexicographically.
> Is this correct?
> thanks
> paraM
>
>
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