Tom Lane wrote:
> UTF8 has disjoint representations for
> first-bytes and not-first-bytes of MB characters, and thus it is
> impossible to make a false match in which an MB pattern character is
> matched to the end of one data character plus the start of another.
> In character sets without that property, we have to use the slow way to
> ensure we don't make out-of-sync matches.
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Thanks. I will include this info in the comments.
cheers
andrew
