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. Fri, 21 Nov 2008 11:27:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: DjangoGuy http://scottbarnham.com/blog/2007/11/20/case-insensitive-ordering-with-django-and-postgresql/#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-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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