Re: LIKE indexing proposal

From: "Zeugswetter Andreas SB SD" <ZeugswetterA(at)spardat(dot)at>
To: "Peter Eisentraut" <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, "Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: "PostgreSQL Development" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: LIKE indexing proposal
Date: 2003-05-13 09:45:21
Message-ID: 46C15C39FEB2C44BA555E356FBCD6FA4961FA8@m0114.s-mxs.net
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> The objection last time was that, according to the SQL standard, LIKE
> patterns should use the locale-specific collation order for the fixed
> parts (instead of character-by-character comparisons),

Yes, I think that LIKE definitely needs to be character-by-character
and I can think of no example in the german language that would make
general sense (like ss and single byte sharp s (ß) would definitely be
nonsense if handled as equal for LIKE).

Andreas

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