On Fri, 2 Aug 2002, Rajesh Kumar Mallah. wrote:
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> Hi Oleg,
>
> I am trying to use contrib/ltree for one of my applications.
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> the query below works fine for me.
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> Qry1: SELECT path from unified_data where path ~ '*.180.*' and path ~ '*.1.*';
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> is there any way of compacting it for example
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> Qry2: SELECT path from unified_data where path ~ '*.180.*' or path ~ '*.1.*'; is better
> written as
> Qry3: SELECT path from unified_data where path ~ '*.180|1.*' ;
Qry2 and Qry3 are equvalent and Qry3 is faster but not much.
But Qry1 is not the same as Qry2 !!!
Qry1 could be rewritten as:
SELECT path from unified_data where path @ '180 & 1';
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> also is qry3 better to Qry2 in terms of performance?
>
> regds
> mallah.
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Regards, Oleg
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