
> > If your solution is short-lived, your change would be not
> > only useless but also harmful. So I expect locale-aware
> > people to confirm that we are in the right direction.
> 
> I am a bit confused here.  We have tinkered with LIKE indexing at
least a
> year.  Now that a solution is found that *works*, it is claimed that
it is
> harmful because LIKE was doing the wrong thing in the first place.
OTOH,
> I have not seen anyone independently claim that LIKE is wrong, nor do
I
> see anyone proposing to actually change it.

Because we configure --without-locale ? How should we see or object to 
wrong behavior in a part of the software we don't need or use ?

Andreas

Tue, 21 Aug 2001 20:03:22 +0200
"Zeugswetter Andreas SB SD" <ZeugswetterA@spardat.at>
RE: Progress report on locale safe LIKE indexing
Zeugswetter Andreas SB SD writes:

> > I am a bit confused here.  We have tinkered with LIKE indexing at
> least a
> > year.  Now that a solution is found that *works*, it is claimed that
> it is
> > harmful because LIKE was doing the wrong thing in the first place.
> OTOH,
> > I have not seen anyone independently claim that LIKE is wrong, nor do
> I
> > see anyone proposing to actually change it.
>
> Because we configure --without-locale ? How should we see or object to
> wrong behavior in a part of the software we don't need or use ?

Wrong answer.  Read my second sentence again and compare it to your first
sentence.

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Tue, 21 Aug 2001 20:16:58 +0200 (CEST)
Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
RE: Progress report on locale safe LIKE indexing