Re: Problems with "order by clause"

Hi Barry,

I forgot to point out that the oracle and sapdb results I got via JDBC
differed from
the results I got directly in SQL-Plus resp. SQL-Studio:

Tralala
tralala
tralal

This led me to the assumption, that JDBC is doing some kind of
formatting or something (?).
To speak clearly:
The results I get in a db console under oracle, sapdb and PostgreSQL are all
the same, while the JDBC results differ in the way described below. This
is what seems
really weird to me...

Looking forward to any further suggestions,

Erik

Barry Lind wrote:

> Erik,
>
> This isn't really a jdbc question, problably should be addressed on
> pgsql-general, or pgsql-sql, however I will give it a try.  On my
> system I actually see the same results as Oracle and Sapdb and not the
> results you are reporting for postgres.  This would lead me to believe
> that the behavior you are seeing is correct behavior but that you are
> running postgres with a locale that is different than mine.  Sort
> order is determined by the locale that you are running under.  My
> database is installed with a C locale (i.e. binary sort order) as
> opposed to a language/territory specific locale that would produce a
> different ordering.
>
> thanks,
> --Barry
>
>
> Erik Behrends wrote:
>
>> Hello to everybody,
>>
>> I have a little problem concerning the "ORDER BY" clause.
>> Consider a table "test" having one text field "val" with the following
>> entries:
>>
>> tralala
>> Tralala
>> tralal
>>
>> Now, I want to execute the following query via JDBC:
>>    SELECT * FROM test ORDER BY val DESC;
>> When using JDBC with Oracle or Sapdb I get the following result:
>>
>> tralala
>> tralal
>> Tralala
>>
>> (correct lexicographic order as expected by Java)
>>
>> Now, using PostgreSQL (7.1.3 with JDBC driver 7.2) the result is:
>>
>> Tralala
>> tralala
>> tralal
>>
>> (lexicographic order as implemented in PostgreSQL)
>>
>> Any ideas what's going on there?
>> Thanks in advance,
>>
>> -- Erik Behrends
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