Re: Best Fit SQL query statement

From: hubert depesz lubaczewski <depesz(at)depesz(dot)com>
To: Rodrigo De León <rdeleonp(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Fernando Hevia <fhevia(at)ip-tel(dot)com(dot)ar>, Kiran <kumar(dot)m(dot)kiran(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Best Fit SQL query statement
Date: 2007-08-11 09:06:44
Message-ID: 20070811090644.GA5255@depesz.com
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On Fri, Aug 10, 2007 at 08:13:46PM -0500, Rodrigo De León wrote:
> On 8/10/07, hubert depesz lubaczewski <depesz(at)depesz(dot)com> wrote:
> > unfortunatelly this query will be hard to optimize.
>
> Uh, how about
>
> SELECT MAX(t1)
> FROM t1
> WHERE '9849' LIKE t1 || '%';

it will not help much as the main burden is the where clause, which is
not indexable.

depesz

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