Re: EXTERNAL storage and substring on long strings - Mailing list pgsql-performance

From Scott Cain
Subject Re: EXTERNAL storage and substring on long strings
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Msg-id 1059683986.1428.59.camel@localhost.localdomain
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In response to EXTERNAL storage and substring on long strings  (Scott Cain <cain@cshl.org>)
Responses Re: EXTERNAL storage and substring on long strings  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
List pgsql-performance
On Thu, 2003-07-31 at 16:32, Tom Lane wrote:
> Scott Cain <cain@cshl.org> writes:
> >> (BTW, if you are using a multibyte database encoding, then that's your
> >> problem right there --- the optimization is practically useless unless
> >> character and byte indexes are the same.)
>
> > I shouldn't be, but since it is an RPM, I can't be sure.
>
> Look at "psql -l" to see what encoding it reports for your database.
>
I see, encoding is a per database option.  Since I've never set it, all
my databases use sql_ascii.
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