difference between a unique constraint and a unique index ??? - Mailing list pgsql-performance

From Dave Cramer
Subject difference between a unique constraint and a unique index ???
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Msg-id E9D1152F-7846-4F03-A435-F1C05E034000@fastcrypt.com
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Responses Re: difference between a unique constraint and a unique index ???  (Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>)
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In order to get like queries to use an index with database initialized
with a UTF-8 character set I added a unique index to a table with a
varchar_pattern_ops

This table already had a unique constraint on the column so I dropped
the unique constraint.

I can't give exact measurements however this caused my application to
slow down considerably.

The only thing I can figure is that the varchar_pattern_ops operator
is significantly slower ???

Is there some other piece of the puzzle to fill in ?

Dave



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