Thanks, Tom and Greg, for all your help. I agree that Redhat 9 is a bit creaky and that we here should upgrade. In the meantime I will put together a tiny test case that will reproduce the problem (at least on my platform). Ben In message <26870.1193091184@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Tom Lane <tgl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Benjamin Weaver <benjamin.weaver@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > I AM in fact running the db on Linux. Redhat 9. Are the encoding parameters > > wrong for Linux? > > Hmm ... RH 9 is awfully old. It's at least conceivable that you're > getting bit by some glibc bug. However, if these are just plain LIKE > calls and not ILIKE then I don't think that theory is very viable > --- AFAICS the regular LIKE code doesn't depend on anything from the > platform. > > A slightly more viable theory is that you're getting bit by a gcc bug. > Did you build the Postgres executables in-house, and if not where did > you get them from? It might be helpful if you'd show us the output > of "pg_config". > > Again, if you could put together a self-contained test case (preferably > a short psql script) it would be helpful so we could try the case on > other machines. It's not at all clear at this point whether the bug > is Postgres' fault or something about the underlying platform. > > regards, tom lane -- Benjamin Weaver Faculty Research Associate, Imaging Papyri Projects, Herculaneum Society, Oxford email: benjamin.weaver@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx phone: (0)1865 610236 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faq