Re: Index selection (and partial index) for BYTEA field - Mailing list pgsql-general

From David Garamond
Subject Re: Index selection (and partial index) for BYTEA field
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Msg-id 405C9F1A.5080409@zara.6.isreserved.com
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In response to Re: Index selection (and partial index) for BYTEA field  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Tom Lane wrote:
>>There's no way to force use of either index, but you can probably get
>>your partial index picked if you define the index like:
>>[ example ]
>
> Probably a more practical way is to generate redundant WHERE conditions.
> For instance:
>
>     create index i_partition_id_000 on partition(id)
>     where id like '\\000%';
>     ... etc etc ...
>
> then when you really want to search for \000\001\002% you do:
>
>     select * from partition
>     where id like '\\000\\001\\002%' AND id like '\\000%';
>
> The second WHERE clause is redundant with the first, but it matches
> the partial index condition so that the index can be used.

That is one cool trick. And it worked!

--
dave


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