Solved: SQL Query Problem

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http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-bugs/2001-12/msg00008.php

I finally got a chance to rebuild the DB server using C locale, and it made
no difference to my ORDER BY problem.  PostgreSQL did not distinguish
between slashes, dashes, and spaces when sorting the records.

Then, in a last-ditch attempt to try anything to get this working, I
recreated my table and changed the data type of my path column from varchar
to "bytea" (never used that one before) because I suspected that it would
sort using a binary string comparison instead of a language-oriented
one.  It worked!!!  Here's the output:

/usr/local/data/x/a
/usr/local/data/x/b
/usr/local/data/x/d
/usr/local/data/xc
/usr/local/data/xc/e

Thanks to Tom and Stephan for their feedback.  However, the problem was not
related to the locale settings.



Kristian T. Lance
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