Re: Nls sorting in Postgresql-8.3.3

Hi!

NLS stands for "Native Language Support" and it's used for display  
error/information messages in different languages.

For sorting data you need to look at LC_COLLATE (http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/interactive/locale.html 
)

You also need to check that you operation system support collation for  
your charset/encoding as PostgreSQL relies on the underling operation- 
systems collation support. FreeBSD for example does not support UTF-8  
collation. On FreeBSD you need the supplied ICU (http://www.icu-project.org/ 
) patch supplied by portage to get working UTF-8 collation.

Best regards,
Mathias Stjernstrom

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On 1 aug 2008, at 10.35, Praveen wrote:

> Hello,
> I installed postgresql-8.3.3 in our local server  with option  -- 
> enable-nls . After successful installion , I create database and  
> import data.But I am not aware how to use nls sort in this  
> postgresql-8.3.3 .
> Please tell me  syntax how to use nls sort in query , if some one  
> know.
> Thanks in advance.
> Praveen Malik.