Re: LIKE, leading percent, bind parameters and indexes

From: Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org>
To: Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka(at)iki(dot)fi>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, "Jim C(dot) Nasby" <jnasby(at)pervasive(dot)com>, Rodrigo Hjort <rodrigo(dot)hjort(at)gmail(dot)com>, Andrew Sullivan <ajs(at)crankycanuck(dot)ca>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: LIKE, leading percent, bind parameters and indexes
Date: 2006-05-28 21:25:45
Message-ID: 20060528212545.GD22869@svana.org
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On Sun, May 28, 2006 at 10:43:18PM +0300, Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
> I don't know the planner internals, so this might not make any sense at
> all, but how about having separate index scan and fetch nodes. Index scan
> would return index tuples and fetch would get the corresponding heap
> tuples. You could then have whatever you want between them, perhaps
> deferring the fetch step until just before returning the rows to the
> client.

That's kinda what a bitmap scan does. Although, we never fetch tuples
unless you're going to use the result in some way...

Have a nice day,
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Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org> http://svana.org/kleptog/
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