Re: [PERFORM] Confusion about locales and 'like' indexes

2005-03-01 Thread Tom Lane
Dan Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > query that uses LIKE. In my research I have read that the locale > setting may affect PostgreSQL's choice of seq scan vs index scan. Non-C-locale indexes can't support LIKE because the sort ordering isn't necessarily right. > I am running Fedora Core 2 a

[PERFORM] Confusion about locales and 'like' indexes

2005-03-01 Thread Dan Harris
Greetings, I have been beating myself up today trying to optimize indices for a query that uses LIKE. In my research I have read that the locale setting may affect PostgreSQL's choice of seq scan vs index scan. I am running Fedora Core 2 and it appears when I run "locale" that it is set to 'e