Re: index for ilike operation - Mailing list pgsql-general

From John R Pierce
Subject Re: index for ilike operation
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Msg-id 4D50D3EF.9000202@hogranch.com
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In response to index for ilike operation  (AI Rumman <rummandba@gmail.com>)
List pgsql-general
On 02/07/11 9:07 PM, AI Rumman wrote:
> I found that in Postresql 9.0.3 documentation:
>
> /It is also possible to use B-tree indexes for ILIKE and ~*, but only
> if the pattern starts with non-alphabetic characters, i.e., characters
> that are not affected by upper/lower case conversion.
>
> /Can anyone please tell me how to configure that?/
> /

hmm?  nothing to configure.  its a special case thats really not very
useful.

     WHERE something ILIKE '432432$#@$#%'

would use a index on something, since there's no characters in there
subject to case shifting.

ditto...

     WHERE something ~* '^42432$@#$#@'       (where ^ anchors the string
to match starting from the first char)



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