Florian Weimer escribió: > Locale settings make a huge difference for sorting and LIKE queries. > We usually use the C locale and SQL_ASCII encoding, mostly for > performance reasons. (Proper UTF-8 can be enforced through > constraints if necessary.) Hmm, you are aware of varchar_pattern_ops and related opclasses, right? That helps for LIKE queries in non-C locales (though you do have to keep almost-duplicate indexes). -- Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/ PostgreSQL Replication, Consulting, Custom Development, 24x7 support