From: Andreas Joseph Krogh <andreak@officenet.no>
Organization: OfficeNet AS
To: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Is index usage in LIKE-queries with UTF-8 implemented in PG-8.3 ?
Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2007 16:30:16 +0200
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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 res=
t=20
of the world soon too...

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Andreas Joseph Krogh <andreak@officenet.no>
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