Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> > Has the single-byte LIKE penalty been eliminated, so we don't need to
> > consider using C as the default locale for initdb, right?
>
> I'm still of the opinion that we should make C the default locale.
> But I'm not sure where the consensus is, so I've not made the change.
>
> > If fixed, how was it done?
>
> Peter has provided a hack whereby one can create a LIKE-supporting index
> in a non-C locale. But a *default* index in a non-C locale is still not
> going to support LIKE ... and the hacked index will not support ordinary
> comparison or ordering operators. So I think there's still a lot left
> to be desired here.
So, my understanding is that you would create something such as:
CREATE INDEX iix ON tab (LIKE col)
and that does LIKE lookups and knows how to do col LIKE 'abc%', but it
can't be used for >= or ORDER BY, but it can be used for equality tests?
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