What locale and encoding are you using? Evidently the LIKE index optimization is failing, but I would not have guessed that a string like 1:0: would cause a problem, especially not if all the entries in the column contain just digits and colons. You can find plenty of material about LIKE+index problems in the list archives. For 7.1, we've gone so far as to disable the optimization altogether in non-ASCII locales (and I'm sure we'll get complaints about that, too :-(). regards, tom lane
- [SQL] "SELECT" problem on 7.0.3 George Moga
- Tom Lane