Re: 7.0.3 reproduceable serious select error - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: 7.0.3 reproduceable serious select error
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Msg-id 5147.979852397@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to 7.0.3 reproduceable serious select error  (robn@verdi.et.tudelft.nl (Rob van Nieuwkerk))
Responses Re: 7.0.3 reproduceable serious select error  (Rob van Nieuwkerk <robn@verdi.et.tudelft.nl>)
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robn@verdi.et.tudelft.nl (Rob van Nieuwkerk) writes:
> The problem is that a SELECT with a certain LIKE condition in combination
> with a GROUP BY does not find the proper records when there is an index on
> the particular column present.  When the index is removed the SELECT *does*
> return the right answer.

Are you running the postmaster in a non-ASCII locale?  This sounds like
the old LIKE index optimization problem that we've struggled with for
quite a while now.  7.1 works around it by disabling the optimization
in non-ASCII locales, which is unpleasant but at least it gives right
answers ...
        regards, tom lane


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