Re: JSON vs Text + Regexp Index Searching - Mailing list pgsql-general

From David Johnston
Subject Re: JSON vs Text + Regexp Index Searching
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Msg-id 1393345068266-5793495.post@n5.nabble.com
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In response to Re: JSON vs Text + Regexp Index Searching  (David Johnston <polobo@yahoo.com>)
Responses Re: JSON vs Text + Regexp Index Searching  (Eliot Gable <egable+pgsql-general@gmail.com>)
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David Johnston wrote
>
> Eliot Gable-4 wrote
>> I advocated creating a separate mapping table which
>> maps the ID of these records to the other ID we are searching for and
>> performing a JOIN on the two tables with appropriate foreign key
>> relationships and indices. However, I was ask to instead put the list
>> into
>> a single column on each row to reduce implementation complexity.
>>
>> Assuming the list of IDs is in a column on each row as TEXT in the format
>> of a JSON array, what is the best way to index the column so I can
>> quickly
>> find the rows with the given ID?
> I recommend benchmarking two implementations:
>
> 1) id_xref integer[] --on the same table, use "search_id = ANY(id_xref)"
> as the WHERE condition
>
> [...]

#1 can be greatly expanded in usefulness by making use of the "intarray"
contrib/extension; as Merlin mentioned up-thread.

David J.





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