[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rob van Nieuwkerk) writes:
> But if anybody thinks that selects with LIKE on indexed columns with
> single-byte non-ASCII characters are working OK: they are not !! See my
> posting and following thread "7.0.3 reproduceable serious select error"
> from a couple of days ago.
Yes, we know :-(. That's why that optimization is currently disabled
for non-ASCII locales in 7.1. Juriy appears to be saying that it does
work OK in KOI8-R locale.
> I made a reproduceable example of things going wrong with a "en_US"
> locale which is the widely-used (single-byte) ISO-8859-1 Latin 1 charset.
en_US uses multi-pass collation rules. It's those collation rules, not
the charset per se, that causes the problem.
regards, tom lane
