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> If that makes a difference then I'd guess you have one of two things:
> 1. A corrupt index (check the REINDEX command)
> 2. (perhaps more likely) Some localisation issues.
> What encoding/locale settings are you using?
Based on the 3rd query of the OP, where the direct comparison results in
"true" for all the rows which matched the "like", I would exclude the
localisation issues variant... unless = is not equals in all cases ;-)
Cheers,
Csaba.
