From: Rigmor Ukuhe <rigmor.ukuhe@finestmedia.ee>
Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: LIKE search and performance
Date: Wed, 23 May 2007 18:52:21 +0300
Message-ID: <46546335.5000109@finestmedia.ee> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <009501c79d4c$445428f0$0b00a8c0@mpsro.dom>
References: <009501c79d4c$445428f0$0b00a8c0@mpsro.dom>
Andy wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a table with varchar and text columns, and I have to search
> through these text in the whole table.
>
> An example would be:
> SELECT * FROM table
> WHERE name like '%john%' or street like '%srt%'
>
> Anyway, the query planner always does seq scan on the whole table and
> that takes some time. How can this be optimized or made in another way
> to be faster?
Use tsearch2 (http://www.sai.msu.su/~megera/postgres/gist/tsearch/V2/) for full text indexing.
Rigmor
>
> I tried to make indexes on the columns but no success.
>
> PG 8.2
>
> Regards,
> Andy.
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