Re: How to get around LIKE inefficiencies?

From: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org>
To: Philip Warner <pjw(at)rhyme(dot)com(dot)au>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: How to get around LIKE inefficiencies?
Date: 2000-11-06 03:12:38
Message-ID: Pine.BSF.4.21.0011052311340.928-100000@thelab.hub.org
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On Mon, 6 Nov 2000, Philip Warner wrote:

> At 21:59 5/11/00 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> >
> >Looks like a great kluge to me ;-)
> >
>
> Hmph. I prefer to think of it as a 'user-defined optimizer hint'. ;-}

Except, if we are telling it to get rid of using the index, may as well
get rid of it altogether, as updates/inserts would be slowed down by
having to update that too ...

i can now do 3 word searches in what looks like no time ... not sure how
it will look after I have ~100k documents indexed, but at least now its
not diead at 22k ...

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