Re: Is index usage in LIKE-queries with UTF-8 implemented in PG-8.3 ?

On Thursday 28 June 2007 17:20:56 Tom Lane wrote:
> Andreas Joseph Krogh <andreak@officenet.no> writes:
> > Anybody knows if the following query will use an index-scan in PG-8.3?
> > SELECT name FROM person WHERE name LIKE 'and%';
> > I know this works in "C"-locale, but I need it with UTF-8,
>
> "C locale" and "UTF8" are entirely orthogonal things.
>
>             regards, tom lane

I had the impression that LIKE-queries of type LIKE '123%' couldn't use an
index if encoding was UTF-8. I was wrong obviously. The varchar_pattern_ops
suggested by Pavel did the trick for me.

Tom: Can you comment on, very short, if the discussion on HACKERS with
title "like/ilike improvements" will improve LIKE queries like this?

Anybody knows if queries of type "LIKE '%234%'" ever will be able to use
indexes, and if someone is working on it? I'm sure I'm not the only one who
would very much appreciate it:-)

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