Re: [HACKERS] Progress report on locale safe LIKE indexing

[Tom Lane]

Peter Eisentraut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Now, if you look at the code that does the LIKE pattern matching you'll
> see that it does not use any locale features, it simply compares
> characters for equality based on their character codes, accounting for the
> wildcards.  Consequentially, this whole operation has nothing to do with
> locales.

But the LIKE code does know about multibyte character sets.  Is it safe
to assume that memcmp-based sorting will not make any mistakes with
multibyte characters?

                        regards, tom lane

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