Re: Bitmap index scans use of filters on available columns - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Antonin Houska
Subject Re: Bitmap index scans use of filters on available columns
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Msg-id 20734.1446628341@localhost
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In response to Bitmap index scans use of filters on available columns  (Jeff Janes <jeff.janes@gmail.com>)
Responses Re: Bitmap index scans use of filters on available columns
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While prefix expression

y like 'abc%'

can be converted to

y >= 'abc'

(see expand_indexqual_opclause()), I'm not sure any kind of expansion is
possible for '%abc%' which would result in a b-tree searchable condition.

Jeff Janes <jeff.janes@gmail.com> wrote:

> Is there a fundamental reason the filter on y is not being applied to
> the index scan, rather than the heap scan?

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