Benjamin Weaver <benjamin.weaver@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Postgres 8.1.4 > server_encoding UTF8 > lc_collate en_GB.UTF-8 > lc_ctype en_GB.UTF-8 Hmph, nothing strange-looking there. I tried to reproduce the problem here, without success. Now I was using 8.1.10 on Linux (I gather your platform is not Linux from the spelling of the locale names), but there hasn't been any change in the LIKE code in the 8.1 branch. One thing that would be worth trying is to turn on query logging (set log_statement = 'all') and verify that the problem query appears in the postmaster log as you expect; this is just to eliminate any doubt about whether the string encoding is getting messed up somewhere between client and server. Assuming you don't find a smoking gun that way, can you put together a self-contained test case? There must be some detail of what you're doing that I failed to reproduce. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map settings