RE: Progress report on locale safe LIKE indexing - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Zeugswetter Andreas SB SD
Subject RE: Progress report on locale safe LIKE indexing
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Msg-id 46C15C39FEB2C44BA555E356FBCD6FA4212720@m0114.s-mxs.net
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In response to Progress report on locale safe LIKE indexing  (Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>)
Responses RE: Progress report on locale safe LIKE indexing
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> > If your solution is short-lived, your change would be not
> > only useless but also harmful. So I expect locale-aware
> > people to confirm that we are in the right direction.
> 
> I am a bit confused here.  We have tinkered with LIKE indexing at
least a
> year.  Now that a solution is found that *works*, it is claimed that
it is
> harmful because LIKE was doing the wrong thing in the first place.
OTOH,
> I have not seen anyone independently claim that LIKE is wrong, nor do
I
> see anyone proposing to actually change it.

Because we configure --without-locale ? How should we see or object to 
wrong behavior in a part of the software we don't need or use ?

Andreas


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