"Dan Kaplan" <dkaplan@citizenhawk.com> writes:
> I've got a lot of rows in one table and a lot of rows in another table. I
> want to do a bunch of queries on their join column. One of these is like
> this: t1.col like '%t2.col%'
> I know that always sucks. I'm wondering how I can make it better.
tsearch or pg_trgm could probably help. Are you really after exact
substring-match semantics, or is this actually a poor man's substitute
for full text search? If you just want substrings then see pg_trgm,
if you want text search see tsearch.
regards, tom lane
