| From: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | drheart(at)wanadoo(dot)es, Lista PostgreSql <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Problem (bug?) with like |
| Date: | 2001-12-28 18:35:41 |
| Message-ID: | 200112281835.fBSIZg129445@candle.pha.pa.us |
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> Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> > But what about '%A%' vs. '%AC%'. Seems the second is reasonably
> > different from the first the our optimizer may be fine with that. Is it
> > only when the strings get longer that we lose specificity?
>
> Yeah, I don't think that the estimates are bad for one or two
> characters. But the estimate gets real small real fast as you
> increase the number of match characters in the LIKE pattern.
> We need to slow that down some.
See my earlier email about the 50% idea for LIKE. Do ordinary string
comparisons also have this problem?
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