> I'm beginning a port of an Oracle application to PostgrSQL. One
> immediate issue is the use of the Oracle 'contains' operator to do
> whole word searches on table rows that contain blank separated lists of
> names. I was told that the original application was written using the
> 'like' operator but the contains operator was found to be much faster.
>
> Is there a PostgreSQL equivalent for this type of use of the Oracle
> contains?
The other methods are to use regular expressions, but I do not expect them to be any faster than a
like. Have you looked at the contrib module tsearch2?
http://www.sai.msu.su/~megera/postgres/gist/tsearch/V2/
Regards,
Richard Broersma Jr.
