Re: BUG #1394: LIKE doesn't seem to use an index - Mailing list pgsql-bugs

Steve Nicolai wrote:
> The software uses the like operator to select these related objects.
> That gets slower as the number of objects increase, even though there
> is an index on id.

See this page for how to create correct indexes for pattern matching
operators:

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/7.4/static/indexes-opclass.html

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Peter Eisentraut
http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/