Re: Doc patch needed: encodings?

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com, PostgreSQL Docs <pgsql-docs(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Doc patch needed: encodings?
Date: 2005-01-04 00:16:39
Message-ID: 200501040016.j040GdK04731@candle.pha.pa.us
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Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > I have applied the following patch to mention non-C locales affect
> > LIKE.
>
> I don't think it's accurate to say that there is a performance impact.
> The only impact is that you need to create a different kind of index.

Well, there is a performance impact to using the locale functions, and
you can't use ordinary indexes for LIKE, just special ones. Is there
better text I should use?

I used "performance impact" in the reference text to suggest there is an
issue and they might want to read the locale section.

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