Re: Search string without tsearch

From: "Scott Marlowe" <scott(dot)marlowe(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: A(dot)Burbello <burbello3000(at)yahoo(dot)com(dot)br>
Cc: "Postgres Adm List" <pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Search string without tsearch
Date: 2008-01-28 18:41:12
Message-ID: dcc563d10801281041p1aaccf69s5f571b9eefa47460@mail.gmail.com
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On Jan 28, 2008 11:38 AM, A.Burbello <burbello3000(at)yahoo(dot)com(dot)br> wrote:
> Hi people,
>
> I would like to some suggestion to search person name
> in a table that has more than 150 milions of rows ...
>
> e.g ... name like 'JOHN%SMITH';
>
> I know there is contrib Tsearch, but I can't for
> political reasons.
> Is there any way to do with good performance???

Would pointing out to the PHBs that tsearch was integrated into pgsql
with v8.3 help convince them to stop being reactionary idiots?

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