Gregory Stark wrote:
> "Bruce Momjian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 
> > Gregory Stark wrote:
> >
> >> Is your database initialized with C locale? If so then length(text) is
> >> optimized to not have to detoast:
> >> 
> >>    if (pg_database_encoding_max_length() == 1)
> >>            PG_RETURN_INT32(toast_raw_datum_size(str) - VARHDRSZ);
> >
> > Wow, we optimized length().  OK, will run the test with
> > substring(t,1,1).
> 
> No, we did substring() too :)

Uh, I looked at text_substring(), and while there is an optimization to
do character counting for encoding length == 1, it is still accessing
the data.

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