Re: 'like' refuses to use an index???

From: Martin Marques <martin(at)bugs(dot)unl(dot)edu(dot)ar>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Mike Nolan <nolan(at)gw(dot)tssi(dot)com>
Cc: dmitry(at)openratings(dot)com (Dima Tkach), pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org (PostgreSQL General)
Subject: Re: 'like' refuses to use an index???
Date: 2003-12-31 15:10:09
Message-ID: 200312311210.09626.martin@bugs.unl.edu.ar
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El Mar 30 Dic 2003 19:06, Tom Lane escribió:
> Mike Nolan <nolan(at)gw(dot)tssi(dot)com> writes:
> > However, I think RH always sets the LANG environmental variable, so
> > that's going to be picked up by initdb, which means that the C locale
> > will NOT be used unless specifically asked for. Other OS packages may
> > also force the choice of a default LANG value.
>
> Yeah. There have been some discussions on pgsql-hackers about
> defaulting to C locale instead of honoring LANG, but we haven't done
> anything.

Which would the loses be in using C locale, for example, for Spanish speeking
people, where we have acute letters and ñ (charset iso-8859-1)? Would it be
only ordering?

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