On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 5:00 PM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Wes James <compte...@gmail.com> writes: > > Why is there a different order on the different platforms. > > This is not exactly unusual. You should first check to see if > lc_collate is set differently in the two installations --- but even if > it's the same, there are often platform-specific interpretations of > the sorting rules. (Not to mention that OS X is flat out broken when > it comes to sorting UTF8 data ...) > > If you want consistent cross-platform results, "C" locale will get > that for you, but it's pretty stupid about non-ASCII characters. > > For more info read > http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/static/charset.html > > regards, tom lane > I did pg_dump of data, set LC_ALL=C, did initdb and createdb, pgsql -f pgdump.sql db, etc, and now it is sorting the way I'd expect and for the needs I have. Thanks all for your responses. -wes
