From: Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com>
To: Andreas Joseph Krogh <andreak@officenet.no>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Is index usage in LIKE-queries with UTF-8 implemented in PG-8.3 ?
Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2007 16:43:40 +0200
Message-ID: <162867790706280743s782ff019nac0510253d158dee@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200706281630.16455.andreak@officenet.no>
References: <200706281630.16455.andreak@officenet.no>
Hello,
it's possible. You have to use varchar_pattern_ops:
CREATE INDEX like_index ON person(name varchar_pattern_ops);
Regards
Pavel Stehule
2007/6/28, Andreas Joseph Krogh <andreak@officenet.no>:
> Hi all.
> Anybody knows if the following query will use an index-scan in PG-8.3?
>
> SELECT name FROM person WHERE name LIKE 'and%';
>
> I know this works in "C"-locale, but I need it with UTF-8, probably the rest
> of the world soon too...
>
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