Re: Can LIKE under utf8 use INDEXes?

From: Andreas Wenk <a(dot)wenk(at)netzmeister-st-pauli(dot)de>
To: Robert James <srobertjames(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Postgres General <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Can LIKE under utf8 use INDEXes?
Date: 2009-07-22 23:15:13
Message-ID: 4A679D81.403@netzmeister-st-pauli.de
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Andreas Wenk wrote:
> Robert James wrote:
>> Thanks - I don't show any locale:
>> rbt_development=> \l
>> List of databases
>> Name | Owner | Encoding
>> ----------------------------+---------------------+----------
>> rbt_development | rbt | UTF8
>> ...
>
> ahm - you are running pg 8.2. There I think the + option is not
> available (\l+). So if you use a debian based system and installed it
> via the package manager apt or aptitude you could give this a try:
>
> /usr/lib/postgresql/8.2/bin/pg_controldata \
> /var/lib/postgresql/8.2/main/ |grep LC
>
> This should output something like:
>
> LC_COLLATE: de_DE.UTF-8
> LC_CTYPE: de_DE.UTF-8
>
> I hope this helps a little ...
>
> Cheers
>
> Andy
>
> P.S.: top posting is ugly ;-)

more correct: \l+ is also available in 8.2 but the output in 8.4 is
extended ...

Cheers

Andy

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