Re: LIKE query on indexes

Hi,

Can this technique work with case insensitive ILIKE?

It didn't seem to use the index when I used ILIKE instead of LIKE.

Thanks,

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On Feb 21, 2006, at 1:28 PM, Ibrahim Tekin wrote:

> this trick did the job.
> thanks.
>
> On 2/21/06, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> wrote:
> Scott Marlowe wrote:
> > On Tue, 2006-02-21 at 09:57, Ibrahim Tekin wrote:
> > > hi,
> > > 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?
> >
> > This is an artifact of how PostgreSQL handles locales other than
> ASCII.
> >
> > If you want such a query to use an index, you need to back up your
> > database, and re-initdb with --locale=C as an argument.
>
> ... or you can choose to create an index with the text_pattern_ops
> operator class, which would be used in a LIKE constraint regardless of
> locale.
>
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/static/indexes-opclass.html
>
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