Rafael Martinez <r.m.guerrero@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > On Tue, 2006-05-16 at 11:14 -0400, Tom Lane wrote: >> I suspect this may be a question of a corrupt index, in which case >> REINDEXing the index being used would fix it. > This is what I thought when I found out the problem. So before I sent my > first e-mail I executed a "reindex index tickets6" but it did not help. So much for that theory. If you copy the table (create table foo as select * from tickets) and build a similar index on the copy, does the behavior persist in the copy? I'm wondering a little bit about encoding issues. What encoding does the database have (see \l) and what do SHOW LC_COLLATE and SHOW LC_CTYPE show? regards, tom lane