From: RW <postgres@tauceti.net>
To: c k <shreeseva.learning@gmail.com>
Cc: pgsql-general@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: LIKE and SIMILAR TO
Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2008 13:24:21 +0200
Message-ID: <48AEA1E5.3080505@tauceti.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d8e7a1e30808220413s3e7c593fr7ee2be6af70ff1ca@mail.gmail.com>
References: <d8e7a1e30808220413s3e7c593fr7ee2be6af70ff1ca@mail.gmail.com>
Maybe you should give tsearch2 a try and create a GIN index.
Regex searches are sometimes a option.
Robert
c k wrote:
> Hello all,
> As we are migrating our ERP application from MySQL to PostgreSQL we
> have some difficulties. One of them is use of Like and Similar to
> operators. We often use LIKE to search a string from front-end without
> case sensetivity. As postgreSQL's LIKE is case sensitive, we tried
> ILIKE and SIMILAR TO, but both are slower than LIKE and we must need
> case insensitivity. How can we get this by increases speed. All search
> columns are VARCHAR(100)to VARCHAR(250). Currently without index.
>
> Thanks,
> CPK
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