Re: LIKE search and performance - Mailing list pgsql-performance

> None of which address the question of what plan PG should produce for:
> SELECT * FROM bigtable WHERE foo LIKE 's%'

    Ah, this one already uses the btree since the '%' is at the end.
    My point is that a search like this will yield too many results to be
useful to the user anyway, so optimizing its performance is a kind of red
herring.