Re: [SQL] quest:optimization with indexes - Mailing list pgsql-sql

From Clayton Cottingham
Subject Re: [SQL] quest:optimization with indexes
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Msg-id 37B20977.B560E075@smartt.com
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In response to Re: [SQL] quest:optimization with indexes  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: [SQL] quest:optimization with indexes  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Tom Lane wrote:

> Clayton Cottingham <drfrog@smartt.com> writes:
> > thanks for all those 'like' tips i was wonderinng, would using regex be the
> > same as far as the indexing rules go?
>
> It's equivalent --- an index can help if the pattern is anchored to the
> start of the string.  Of course the pattern notation is different...
>
>                         regards, tom lane

what about helper software like glimpse, as per my other thread?

i was told to use glimpse, because full text index {fti} isnt robust enough to
handle  large db's

what do you think the most optimized way of handling this sort of thing would
be?



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