Re: Mac ordering with locales

Pascal Cohen <pcohen@wimba.com> writes:
> The fact is that works on Linux and win but under Mac I always get the
> ordering with 'default' C locale (I displayed all the lc_* and all are
> right set)

Yeah, this has been complained of before, eg here
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-general/2005-11/msg00047.php
and here
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-general/2004-04/msg00564.php

It seems to be a deficiency in Apple's locale support.  The second
message is interesting since it indicates that "smart" sorting is
available somewhere/somehow under OS X, but nobody here knows how
to get at it :-(

            regards, tom lane