Bill Moseley wrote: > What's the server encoding? When you say "My database is in utf8", then "utf8" is the server encoding. > Does that mean if the encoding is anything other than "C" C is a locale, not an encoding. > Just that sorting utf8 is a bit more work that sorting raw bytes. Sorting in C locale is certainly faster, but for anything else, there won't be any noticeable difference I would think. -- Peter Eisentraut http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/