Re: 'like' refuses to use an index??? - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Mike Nolan
Subject Re: 'like' refuses to use an index???
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Msg-id 200312302222.hBUMMO5C003302@gw.tssi.com
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In response to Re: 'like' refuses to use an index???  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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> Mike Nolan <nolan@gw.tssi.com> writes:
> > However, I think RH always sets the LANG environmental variable, so
> > that's going to be picked up by initdb, which means that the C locale
> > will NOT be used unless specifically asked for.  Other OS packages may
> > also force the choice of a default LANG value.
>
> Yeah.  There have been some discussions on pgsql-hackers about
> defaulting to C locale instead of honoring LANG, but we haven't done
> anything.

Hmm. is the 'C' locale going to be faster than SQL_ASCII?

Second dumb question:  What is there about SQL_ASCII that a 'like'
cannot use indexes?
--
Mike Nolan


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