From: Neil Conway <neilc@samurai.com>
Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2005 00:22:24 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Add a reference to the documentation on alternate index operator classes in
X-Git-Tag: REL8_1_0BETA1~1191
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=957f51ea6ba96709b87dbed00ee54df4a9a8a6c9;p=thirdparty%2Fpostgresql.git

Add a reference to the documentation on alternate index operator classes in
the locale docs. Patch from Chris KL, editorialization by Neil Conway.
---

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/charset.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/charset.sgml
index cf07adba569..dc8a429244d 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/charset.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/charset.sgml
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-<!-- $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/charset.sgml,v 2.70 2005/03/15 02:30:33 momjian Exp $ -->
+<!-- $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/charset.sgml,v 2.71 2005/03/17 00:22:24 neilc Exp $ -->
 
 <chapter id="charset">
  <title>Localization</>
@@ -224,6 +224,15 @@ initdb --locale=sv_SE
     from being used by <literal>LIKE</>. For this reason use locales
     only if you actually need them.
    </para>
+
+   <para>
+    As a workaround to allow <productname>PostgreSQL</> to use indexes
+    with <literal>LIKE</> clauses under a non-C locale, several custom
+    operator classes exist. These allow the creation of an index that
+    performs a strict character-by-character comparison, ignoring
+    locale comparison rules. Refer to <xref linkend="indexes-opclass">
+    for more information.
+   </para>
   </sect2>
 
   <sect2>