On 2007-03-23, ITAGAKI Takahiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks, it all made sense to me. My proposal was completely wrong.
Actually, I think your proposal is fundamentally correct, merely incomplete. Doing octet-based rather than character-based matching of strings is a _design goal_ of UTF8. Treating UTF8 like any other multibyte charset and converting everything to wide-chars is, in my opinion, always going to result in suboptimal performance. -- Andrew, Supernews http://www.supernews.com - individual and corporate NNTP services ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 9: In versions below 8.0, the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not match
