Re: LIKE query on indexes

my database encoding is unicode.
i have two table, one is 3.64gb on hdd and has 2.2 million records. it takes
140 secs to run on my AMD Turion 64 M 800MHz/1GB laptop.
second table is 1.2gb, 220000 records, and takes 56 secs to run.

explain says 'Seq Scan on mytable, ..'

On 2/21/06, mark(at)mark(dot)mielke(dot)cc <mark(at)mark(dot)mielke(dot)cc> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 05:57:12PM +0200, Ibrahim Tekin wrote:
> > i have btree index on a text type field. i want see rows which starts
> with
> > certain characters on that field. so i write a query like this:
> > SELECT * FROM mytable WHERE myfield LIKE 'john%'
> > since this condition is from start of the field, query planner should
> use
> > index to find such elements but explain command shows me it will do a
> > sequential scan.
> > is this lack of a feature or i am wrong somewhere?
>
> Is the query fast enough? How big is your table? What does explain
> analyze select tell you?
>
> Cheers,
> mark
>
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