From: Scott Cain <cain@cshl.org>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: EXTERNAL storage and substring on long strings
Date: 31 Jul 2003 16:39:47 -0400
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On Thu, 2003-07-31 at 16:32, Tom Lane wrote:
> Scott Cain <cain@cshl.org> writes:
> >> (BTW, if you are using a multibyte database encoding, then that's your
> >> problem right there --- the optimization is practically useless unless
> >> character and byte indexes are the same.)
>
> > I shouldn't be, but since it is an RPM, I can't be sure.
>
> Look at "psql -l" to see what encoding it reports for your database.
>
I see, encoding is a per database option. Since I've never set it, all
my databases use sql_ascii.
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