Re: like performance w/o wildcards. - Mailing list pgsql-general

Joseph Shraibman wrote:
> Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > Well, I don't see that = would be significantly faster than LIKE with a
> > no-wildcard string, so I don't see the value in having LIKE detect
> > non-whildcard strings.
> >
> Because it won't use an index for a LIKE, only a seqscan.

Oh, that's interesting.  I think a LIKE will already use an index,
except for non-C locales.  Is that the issue?

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