Stefan Holzheu <stefan.holzheu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Other queries with the equal operator do match rows. Am I missing something? > Postgresql: 8.1.1 > Fieldtype: text > Database encoding: Latin9 What LC_COLLATE locale are you using? Your report looks a whole lot like the recently identified problem with locales that think that some not-bitwise-identical strings are "equal", as in this thread: http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-general/2005-12/msg00740.php If the same queries return sane results after doing set enable_indexscan = off, then that's probably what the problem is. If so, updating to 8.1.2 and REINDEXing should fix it. regards, tom lane