Doug,
Yes, it does depend on the locale, you can get around this in 7.4 by
building the index with smart operators
Dave
On Thu, 2003-12-18 at 20:38, Doug McNaught wrote:
> Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au> writes:
>
> >> It appears that the optimizer only uses indexes for = clause?
> >
> > The optimizer will used indexes for LIKE clauses, so long as the
> > clause is a prefix search, eg:
> >
> > SELECT * FROM test WHERE a LIKE 'prf%';
>
> Doesn't this still depend on your locale?
>
> -Doug
>
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