Re: String matching - Mailing list pgsql-performance

From Stephan Szabo
Subject Re: String matching
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Msg-id 20050214143050.R11070@megazone.bigpanda.com
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In response to Re: String matching  (Ivan Voras <ivoras@fer.hr>)
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On Mon, 14 Feb 2005, Ivan Voras wrote:

> Stephan Szabo wrote:
> > On Mon, 14 Feb 2005, Ivan Voras wrote:
>
> >>Could you give me an example for this, or point me to the relevant
> >>documentation?
>
> >
> > http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.0/interactive/indexes-opclass.html
>
> Thanks! I didn't know this and I certainly didn't think it would be that
> easy :)

Well, it's not perfect. It requires a separate index from one for normal
comparisons, so it's trading modification speed for LIKE lookup speed.

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