Re: Like search performance.

I'm not an expert, but AFAIK locale and collation heavily affects LIKE, and
thus, IIRC there is no index search for like, maybe except the simplest
locales (maybe C and/or en_US?)

But if you mean it... there is a nasty trick in the archives:

http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-general/2002-08/msg00819.php

Really, really nasty, but really nice at the same time.

G.
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Diehl, Jeffrey" <jdiehl(at)sandia(dot)gov>
To: <pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org>; <pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Sent: Wednesday, April 30, 2003 6:34 PM
Subject: [PERFORM] Like search performance.

> Hi all,
>
> I have a fairly large table with a char(20) field in it which I search on
> quite a bit. The problem is that I tend to do a lot of
> "...where field like '%-d%'" type searches on this field.
>
> Is there any to speed up this type of search?
>
> TIA,
>
> Mike Diehl.
>
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