RE: [GENERAL] non-case sensitive searches

From: "Jackson, DeJuan" <djackson(at)cpsgroup(dot)com>
To: Gregory Maxwell <greg(at)z(dot)ml(dot)org>, "Jackson, DeJuan" <djackson(at)cpsgroup(dot)com>
Cc: "Gene Selkov Jr(dot)" <selkovjr(at)mcs(dot)anl(dot)gov>, Kevin Heflin <kheflin(at)shreve(dot)net>, pgsql-general(at)postgreSQL(dot)org
Subject: RE: [GENERAL] non-case sensitive searches
Date: 1999-01-14 21:09:19
Message-ID: F10BB1FAF801D111829B0060971D839F5E1B68@cpsmail
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> On Wed, 13 Jan 1999, Jackson, DeJuan wrote:
>
> > And remember unless you use full text indexing (which is
> expensive) you
> > won't have indexing on that search (for either the LIKE or regex).
> > -DEJ
>
> Actually, if you use case sensitive regex, and anchor the
> begining (with
> ^) then it will use btree indexes.

So will a front anchored LIKE, but the query that was being performed
was an unanchored LIKE (i.e. '%stuff%').

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