The following bug has been logged online:

Bug reference:      1027
Logged by:          William H Copson

Email address:      [EMAIL PROTECTED]

PostgreSQL version: 7.5 Dev

Operating system:   Redhat 7.2 (highly modified)

Description:        incorrect result from 'order by'

Details: 

The following:

drop table tst;
create table tst (
name varchar(25));
insert into tst values ('LEE,ADAM');
insert into tst values ('LEEBERMAN,JOHN');
insert into tst values ('LEE,RALPH');
select name from tst order by name;

Produces the following output:

DROP TABLE
CREATE TABLE
INSERT 3307587 1
INSERT 3307588 1
INSERT 3307589 1
      name
----------------
 LEE,ADAM
 LEEBERMAN,JOHN
 LEE,RALPH
(3 rows)

Expected output:
      name
----------------
 LEE,ADAM
 LEE,RALPH
 LEEBERMAN,JOHN
(3 rows)

I have tried databases with SQL_ASCII, LATIN1 and LATIN2
encoding with the same result.
>From this small example and others involving an employee
table (80K+ records) it appears that the comma is being
parsed out prior to the sort (i.e. 'LEEB' sorts after
'LEEA' and before 'LEER').



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