> At least on a *nix system, collation is based on the value of the LC_ALL > environment variable at dbinit time. There's nothing you can do about > it in a live database. IMO that's a little awkward, and is what finally > made me change the global from ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8 on my three Gentoo > Linux machines. This is great info, thanks. Could you let me know how I could change the global values of "LC_ALL"? I am on Linux too, just CentOS, but I suppose it should be the same or similar? ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 9: In versions below 8.0, the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not match