Re: PostgreSQL, Mac OS X and locales

On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 10:56:02PM +0100, Guido Neitzer wrote:
> Hi.
>
> I have a problem with the use of PostgreSQL on Mac OS X (10.4.x) and
> selects with "order by". When there are german umlauts in the column
> which is used to order, the sorted result is wrong.

PostgreSQL should get the same results as the command-line sort for the
same values of LC_COLLATE. However, the value is fixed at initdb time
so maybe that's what's confusing you.

However, MacOS X inherited FreeBSDs locale setup, which is fairly lame.
They've made many improvements though so your problem should be
fixable.

BTW, you didn't actually say what locale you where using...

Have a nice day,
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