From: Michael Monnerie <michael.monnerie@is.it-management.at>
To: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: "like" and index
Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2009 12:41:40 +0100
Message-ID: <200902251241.40700@zmi.at> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8f750b7c0902250259w6065515as350aca3b5d7d8173@mail.gmail.com>
References: <8f750b7c0902250259w6065515as350aca3b5d7d8173@mail.gmail.com>
On Mittwoch 25 Februar 2009 Tony Liao wrote:
> hi all,
> I have a table table_A (id serial,prefix varchar),for example.
> now I want to get the id of "johnsmith"'s prefix match
> table_A.prefix,so I do select id from table_A where 'johnsmith' like
> prefix||'%'
SELECT id FROM table_A WHERE prefix LIKE 'johnsmith%';
> ,the table_A is very large so I would like to make
> index. create table_A_index on table_A(prefix)
> I try to explain analyze,but it doesn't work ,it use seq scan.
Because your SELECT was wrong.
> I try another index. drop index table_A_index; create
> table_A_index on table_A(prefix varchar_pattern_ops); it doesn't
> work,too.
> thanks
> ps:I have another table table_B would use table_B.prefix=
> table_A.prefix.so how can I create the index?
That's a foreign key, if I understand you correctly.
ALTER TABLE ONLY B
ADD CONSTRAINT B_prefix_fkey FOREIGN KEY (prefix) REFERENCES
A(prefix) ON UPDATE CASCADE ON DELETE CASCADE;
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