Robert James <srobertjames@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > Hi. I'm confused about the behavior of LIKE under utf8 locale. UTF8 is not a locale, it's an encoding. If you're using C locale then LIKE can use indexes, regardless of the encoding. If you're using some other locale then you need a pattern_ops index. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general