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From Guillaume Lelarge
Subject Re: ignore case in where clause
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In response to ignore case in where clause  ("Edward W. Rouse" <erouse@comsquared.com>)
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On Thu, 2012-03-22 at 16:26 -0400, Edward W. Rouse wrote:
> I am currently using lower(column) = '' for matching case insensitive. I
> know that there are ways to do this with regular expressions too. I recently
> noticed that including even one lower causes severe performance issues (from
> 290ms to over 80Kms).
> 

Probably because it cannot use the index anymore. Try creating an index
on lower(column), and see if it helps.


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