Re: Doc patch needed: encodings? - Mailing list pgsql-docs

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: Doc patch needed: encodings?
Date
Msg-id 200501040016.j040GdK04731@candle.pha.pa.us
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In response to Re: Doc patch needed: encodings?  (Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>)
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Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > I have applied the following patch to mention non-C locales affect
> > LIKE.
>
> I don't think it's accurate to say that there is a performance impact.
> The only impact is that you need to create a different kind of index.

Well, there is a performance impact to using the locale functions, and
you can't use ordinary indexes for LIKE, just special ones.  Is there
better text I should use?

I used "performance impact" in the reference text to suggest there is an
issue and they might want to read the locale section.

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