On Mon, 14 Feb 2005, Ivan Voras wrote: > PFC wrote: > > > > normally you shouldn't have to do anything, it should just work : > > > >> select field from table where field like 'abc%' > > > If it does not use the index, I saw on the mailing list that the > > locale could be an issue. > > Oh yes, I forgot about that :( I do have LC_COLLATE (on latin2)... > > It's a shame PostgreSQL doesn't allow collation rules on specific fields > - this field I'm using here will always be 7bit ASCII :(
You can also create an index using a <typename>_pattern_ops operator class which should be usable even with other collations. ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to [EMAIL PROTECTED])