Hi. I'm confused about the behavior of LIKE under utf8 locale.
Accoding to the docs (
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.2/interactive/locale.html - excerpted
below), it seems that LIKE ignores locale and hence can't use indexes. Yet,
EXPLAIN clearly shows it using indexes.
The docs suggest a
On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 5:57 PM, Robert Jamessrobertja...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi. I'm confused about the behavior of LIKE under utf8 locale.
Accoding to the docs (
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.2/interactive/locale.html - excerpted
below), it seems that LIKE ignores locale and hence can't use
On Wed, 2009-07-22 at 12:57 -0400, Robert James wrote:
The docs suggest a workaround, to allow LIKE to use indexes - but I
couldn't figure it out. Although I'm stuck with locale utf8, all my
data is 7-bit ascii. I'm doing a tremendous amount of WHERE x LIKE
'abc%' - what's the best way to
Robert James srobertja...@gmail.com 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
Thank you, Tom. I guess I'm a bit confused about things here. How can I
find the locale of my database? (I wasn't able to find this in the docs).
If I do have the locale set to 'C', do I loose anything by using utf8 for
all text fields?
On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 4:31 PM, Tom Lane
Robert James wrote:
Thank you, Tom. I guess I'm a bit confused about things here. How can
I find the locale of my database? (I wasn't able to find this in the docs).
If I do have the locale set to 'C', do I loose anything by using utf8
for all text fields?
use psql:
postgres=# \l+
Thanks - I don't show any locale:
rbt_development= \l
List of databases
Name | Owner | Encoding
+-+--
rbt_development | rbt | UTF8
...
On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 6:45 PM, Andreas Wenk
a.w...@netzmeister-st-pauli.de wrote:
Robert James
Robert James wrote:
Thanks - I don't show any locale:
rbt_development= \l
List of databases
Name | Owner | Encoding
+-+--
rbt_development | rbt | UTF8
...
ahm - you are running pg 8.2. There I think the + option is not
available
Andreas Wenk wrote:
Robert James wrote:
Thanks - I don't show any locale:
rbt_development= \l
List of databases
Name | Owner | Encoding
+-+--
rbt_development | rbt | UTF8
...
ahm - you are running pg 8.2. There I think the + option
Andreas Wenk a.w...@netzmeister-st-pauli.de writes:
Robert James wrote:
Thanks - I don't show any locale:
ahm - you are running pg 8.2. There I think the + option is not
available (\l+). So if you use a debian based system and installed it
via the package manager apt or aptitude you could
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