| From: | Philip Warner <pjw(at)rhyme(dot)com(dot)au> |
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| To: | The Hermit Hacker <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org> |
| 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 03:18:34 |
| Message-ID: | 3.0.5.32.20001106141834.02884c20@mail.rhyme.com.au |
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At 23:12 5/11/00 -0400, The Hermit Hacker wrote:
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>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 ...
>
So long as you don't ever need the index for anything else, then getting
rid of it is by far the best solution. But, eg, if you want to check if a
page is already indexed you will probably end up with a sequential search.
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