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Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2003 09:36:08 -0700
From: Dennis Gearon <gearond@cvc.net>
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To: Lincoln Yeoh <lyeoh@pop.jaring.my>
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Subject: Re: [GENERAL] interesting PHP/MySQL thread
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lower's probably faster, since most characters are lower already.

Lincoln Yeoh wrote:
> At 12:33 AM 6/23/2003 -0500, nolan@celery.tssi.com wrote:
> 
>> >
>> > Oh, you mean like "SELECT * FROM table WHERE field ~* 'nolan';"?
>>
>> No, I mean as in "SELECT * FROM table WHERE field = 'nolan';"
>>
>> That will match values with any combination of upper and lower case
>> letters that fold to 'nolan':  'Nolan', 'NOLAN', etc.
> 
> 
> For me that's a matter of taste. I prefer to use = for case sensitive 
> and lower(field)=lower('data') for case insensitive. I wonder if there 
> is a difference between using lower vs upper for case insensitivity but 
> I've never bothered to look deeply into it.
> 
> 
>> Also, unlike PostgreSQL (at least in 7.3), if you define an index on
>> the column, mysql appears to use it for LIKE queries.
>>
>>    "SELECT * FROM table WHERE field LIKE 'nolan%';"
>>
>> is very fast in mysql but not in 7.3, and even non-anchored LIKE searches
>> in mysql appear to be using the index.
> 
> 
> The versions of Postgresql I've used since I can remember (e.g. at least 
> v6.5.3 some years ago) use indexes for anchored LIKE searches.
> 
> I vaguely recall some people having this "not using index" behaviour 
> when they are using various locales.
> 
> 
>>    "SELECT * FROM table WHERE field LIKE '%nolan%';"
>>
>> executes considerably faster with an index on field than without one.
> 
> 
> I think MySQL wins in this one. Just wondering how they do it. And 
> whether it's a good idea to do it that way.
> 
> Regards,
> Link.
> 
> 
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