Re: PostgesSQL equivalent of the Oracle 'contains' operator

From: Richard Broersma Jr <rabroersma(at)yahoo(dot)com>
To: stafford(at)marine(dot)rutgers(dot)edu, pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: PostgesSQL equivalent of the Oracle 'contains' operator
Date: 2006-11-10 17:27:02
Message-ID: 686466.47178.qm@web31808.mail.mud.yahoo.com
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> I'm beginning a port of an Oracle application to PostgrSQL. One
> immediate issue is the use of the Oracle 'contains' operator to do
> whole word searches on table rows that contain blank separated lists of
> names. I was told that the original application was written using the
> 'like' operator but the contains operator was found to be much faster.
>
> Is there a PostgreSQL equivalent for this type of use of the Oracle
> contains?

The other methods are to use regular expressions, but I do not expect them to be any faster than a
like. Have you looked at the contrib module tsearch2?
http://www.sai.msu.su/~megera/postgres/gist/tsearch/V2/
Regards,

Richard Broersma Jr.

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