RE: Progress report on locale safe LIKE indexing

From: "Zeugswetter Andreas SB SD" <ZeugswetterA(at)spardat(dot)at>
To: "Peter Eisentraut" <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, "Hiroshi Inoue" <Inoue(at)tpf(dot)co(dot)jp>
Cc: "PostgreSQL Development" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: RE: Progress report on locale safe LIKE indexing
Date: 2001-08-21 18:03:22
Message-ID: 46C15C39FEB2C44BA555E356FBCD6FA4212720@m0114.s-mxs.net
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> > If your solution is short-lived, your change would be not
> > only useless but also harmful. So I expect locale-aware
> > people to confirm that we are in the right direction.
>
> I am a bit confused here. We have tinkered with LIKE indexing at
least a
> year. Now that a solution is found that *works*, it is claimed that
it is
> harmful because LIKE was doing the wrong thing in the first place.
OTOH,
> I have not seen anyone independently claim that LIKE is wrong, nor do
I
> see anyone proposing to actually change it.

Because we configure --without-locale ? How should we see or object to
wrong behavior in a part of the software we don't need or use ?

Andreas

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