On Mon, May 01, 2006 at 12:16:46PM -0500, Wes wrote: > Back in the 7.4 era, to make leading substrings be indexed, I had to set > locale=C. See thread: > > <http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-general/2005-02/msg00159.php> > > I couldn't find any updates to this issue in the archives since then. > > With 8.1.3, the default locale for my system is en_US.UTF8. Leading > substring searches result in a sequential search instead of an indexed > search. Do I still have to initdb to locale=C, or is there a better option > now? Check the documentation, but if you declare a index with (for example) text_pettern_ops, then LIKE will work even if the rest of your DB is UTF-8. Have a nice day, -- Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@xxxxxxxxx> http://svana.org/kleptog/ > From each according to his ability. To each according to his ability to litigate.
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