Samuel Gendler <sgendler@ideasculptor.com> writes:
> It's not at all clear why they are not coming out of the db in
> alphabetically sorted order when the query includes "order by
> VehicleTrimAbbreviated asc"
Usually the thing to ask at this point is "what's the database's
LC_COLLATE setting"? Non-C locales often have truly bizarre
sorting rules.
regards, tom lane