Re: Sorting Issue

Is there anywhere that gives you all the available collations and their
definitions?  I found with the C collation it now sorts the spaces
correct but it is also case sensitive which messes with some of our
other sorts.

-----Original Message-----
From: Tom Lane [mailto:tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us]
Sent: Tuesday, May 10, 2011 9:47 AM
To: Ozer, Pam
Cc: Samuel Gendler; emilu@encs.concordia.ca; pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [SQL] Sorting Issue

"Ozer, Pam" <pozer@automotive.com> writes:
> Isn't this the English standard for collation?  Or is this a non-c
> locale as mentioned below?  Is there anyway around this?
>        LC_COLLATE = 'en_US.utf8'

en_US is probably using somebody's idea of "dictionary order", which
I believe includes ignoring spaces in the first pass.  You might be
happier using "C" collation.  Unfortunately that requires re-initdb'ing
your database (as of existing PG releases).
        regards, tom lane