Re: Behavior of a pg_trgm index for 2 (or < 3) character LIKE queries

From: Alexander Korotkov <aekorotkov(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Sawada Masahiko <sawada(dot)mshk(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Amit Langote <amitlangote09(at)gmail(dot)com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Behavior of a pg_trgm index for 2 (or < 3) character LIKE queries
Date: 2013-05-30 19:25:00
Message-ID: CAPpHfdtGkbXjrPkxziRdc9dNnurGAYgivYLNV0_LoBQ329fS7A@mail.gmail.com
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On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 12:49 PM, Sawada Masahiko <sawada(dot)mshk(at)gmail(dot)com>wrote:

> following emails are discussed about partial match of pg_trgm. I hope
> will this help.
> <
> http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CAHGQGwFJshvV2nGME19wdTW9teFw_w7h2ns4E+YYsjkB9WdWDQ@mail.gmail.com
> >
> as you may know, if search string contains multibyte characters
> trigram key is converted to CRC of 4 byte and it is used as key.
> (but only use upper 3 byte from CRC)
> so we can do partial matching if KEEPONLYALNUM is enabled.
>

Please, read the further discussion on that thread. We can't do partial
matching because of CRC independently of KEEPONLYALNUM.

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With best regards,
Alexander Korotkov.

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