Comments on: Case-insensitive ordering with Django and PostgreSQL http://scottbarnham.com/blog/2007/11/20/case-insensitive-ordering-with-django-and-postgresql/ Code and comments on web development, Django, Python and things (un)related. Tue, 13 Jul 2010 16:31:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Dave Naffziger http://scottbarnham.com/blog/2007/11/20/case-insensitive-ordering-with-django-and-postgresql/comment-page-1/#comment-735 Dave Naffziger Tue, 27 Oct 2009 20:04:24 +0000 http://scottbarnham.com/blog/2007/11/20/case-insensitive-ordering-with-django-and-postgresql/#comment-735 Great solution, super helpful. Thanks for posting it. It might be helpful also to know that Wikipedia moved the page you linked to about different SQL dialects. The new page is: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/SQL_Dialects_Reference/Functions_and_expressions/String_functions It looks like the syntax is ok unless for some reason we want to switch to Virtuoso =) Great solution, super helpful. Thanks for posting it.

It might be helpful also to know that Wikipedia moved the page you linked to about different SQL dialects. The new page is:
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/SQL_Dialects_Reference/Functions_and_expressions/String_functions

It looks like the syntax is ok unless for some reason we want to switch to Virtuoso =)

]]> By: Chris http://scottbarnham.com/blog/2007/11/20/case-insensitive-ordering-with-django-and-postgresql/comment-page-1/#comment-698 Chris Thu, 16 Jul 2009 08:36:48 +0000 http://scottbarnham.com/blog/2007/11/20/case-insensitive-ordering-with-django-and-postgresql/#comment-698 Very nice. A great simple solution. Very nice. A great simple solution.

]]> By: DjangoGuy http://scottbarnham.com/blog/2007/11/20/case-insensitive-ordering-with-django-and-postgresql/comment-page-1/#comment-581 DjangoGuy Thu, 13 Nov 2008 16:02:56 +0000 http://scottbarnham.com/blog/2007/11/20/case-insensitive-ordering-with-django-and-postgresql/#comment-581 Thanks for the hint. It is quite useful! Thanks for the hint. It is quite useful!

]]> By: Sundance http://scottbarnham.com/blog/2007/11/20/case-insensitive-ordering-with-django-and-postgresql/comment-page-1/#comment-126 Sundance Wed, 21 Nov 2007 09:52:29 +0000 http://scottbarnham.com/blog/2007/11/20/case-insensitive-ordering-with-django-and-postgresql/#comment-126 Ayup: Postgres doesn't support <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collation" rel="nofollow">collations</a>. It <i>claims</i> to, but in truth, as far as I know, what it does is simply to use the OS-level LC_COLLATE variable (or a delegate thereof like LC_ALL) to its sorting functions and consider it a done deal. So it's impossible to have per-database, or per-table, or, heavens forbid, per-column collations, as in, you know... other RDBMS. This is easily the biggest wart in this otherwise wonderful RDBMS and I WISH they'd stop pretending they support collations. For all intents and purposes, they don't. Ayup: Postgres doesn’t support collations. It claims to, but in truth, as far as I know, what it does is simply to use the OS-level LC_COLLATE variable (or a delegate thereof like LC_ALL) to its sorting functions and consider it a done deal. So it’s impossible to have per-database, or per-table, or, heavens forbid, per-column collations, as in, you know… other RDBMS.

This is easily the biggest wart in this otherwise wonderful RDBMS and I WISH they’d stop pretending they support collations. For all intents and purposes, they don’t.

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