> I have a problem when sorting records with:
> SELECT * FROM table WHERE name LIKE 'Ö%'
>
> I am running Postgres 8.02 with a database whose character encoding is
> UNICODE.
>
> The SQL Query
>
> SELECT *
> FROM member
> WHERE name LIKE 'O%'
> OR
> name like 'Ö%'
> ORDER BY name
>
>
> returns this:
> Öhlmann
> Öhmann
> Obenaus
> Ochoa
> O'Donovan
> Oehme
> Oklant
> Oltub
> Oltüch
> Oltutz
> Oltüwer
>
> According to german sorting rules the result is fine except the both
> first entries "Öhlmann" and "Öhmann".
> Why do appear these records at the beginning of the list?
> The proper result should read like this:
> Obenaus
> Ochoa
> O'Donovan
> Oehme
> Öhlmann
> Öhmann
> Oklant
> Oltub
> Oltüch
> Oltutz
> Oltüwer
>
>
>
> The same problem accours when using "E" where my result is this:
> Élie de Beaumont
> Eberer
> Ecü
> Edding
> Emmer
>
> The proper result should be:
> Eberer
> Ecü
> Edding
> Élie de Beaumont
> Emmer
>
>
> Any idea how I can solve this problem?
>
>
> Thank you very much in advance,
> Nico
To complete the missing information, here are the variables set for the
databases:
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lc_collate de_DE@euro
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lc_numeric de_DE@euro
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log_destination stderr
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port 5432
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stats_command_string off
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syslog_ident postgres
TimeZone Europe/Berlin
trace_notify off
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Is there any explaination why the result is not sorted properly?