Interesting it works now, and the good news is it is *WAY* faster, this might be able to speed up marc's doc search by orders of magnitude
this is searching 100536 rows select * from url where fn_strrev(url) like fn_strrev('%beta12.html'); 1.57ms explain select * from url where url like '%beta12.html'; 3310.38 ms Dave On Tue, 2004-01-27 at 13:48, Tom Lane wrote: > Dave Cramer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I'm using 7.4.1, the db was initdb --locale='C' > > and no I don't get them on plain indexes ???? > > Oh? If it's 7.4 then you can confirm the locale selection with > "show lc_collate" and "show lc_ctype" (I think the first of these > is what the LIKE optimization checks). > > regards, tom lane > -- Dave Cramer 519 939 0336 ICQ # 1467551 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faqs/FAQ.html