=?iso-8859-1?Q?Thorbj=F6rn_Eriksson?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I've encountered a strange behavior in postgres 7.2.1 regarding how psql
> handles strings ending with space characters.

Perhaps you are running in a non-C locale?  A lot of locales have
sorting rules that are pretty weird about whitespace.

> The reason that we don't use 'LIKE 201901  %' is that it don't use
> the index

This suggests strongly that you are in a non-C locale.  Your external
software seems to be emulating the standard LIKE-to-index optimization;
which as you are now discovering, does not work with non-C sorting
rules (so the system doesn't try to apply it).

                        regards, tom lane

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