Re: UTF8MatchText

Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> writes:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> Except that the entire point of this patch is to dumb down NextChar to
>> be the same as NextByte for UTF8 strings.

> That's not what I see in (what I think is) the latest submission, which
> includes this snippet:

[ scratches head... ]  OK, then I think I totally missed what this patch
is trying to accomplish; because this code looks just the same as the
existing multibyte-character operations.  Where does the performance
improvement come from?

            regards, tom lane