On Jul 7, 2008, at 13:10, Tom Lane wrote:
> We intentionally force such strings to be considered non-equal.
> See varstr_cmp, and if you like see the archives from back when
> that was put in.
>
> The = and <> operators are in fact consistent with the behavior of
> varstr_cmp (and had better be!); they're just optimized a bit.
Thank you, Tom. I'll post my updated patch shortly.
In the meantime, can anyone suggest an easy way to populate a table
full of random strings so that I can do a bit of benchmarking?
Thanks,
David
