Magnus Hagander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Tom Lane wrote: >> Hmm. If it doesn't need a special case, then we still lack an >> explanation for the aforementioned bug report.
> From what I can tell that report doesn't tell us very much - we don't > know server encoding, we don't know server locale, we don't even know > client encoding. So I don't think we know anywhere *near* enough to say > it's related to this. In the followup we found out that he was using UTF-8 encoding: http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-bugs/2007-05/msg00264.php So while that report certainly left a great deal to be desired in terms of precision, my gut tells me it's related. Has anyone tried to reproduce that behavior by initdb'ing 8.2 in a suitable UTF-8-using Windows locale? regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 9: In versions below 8.0, the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not match