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From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
To: Richard Yen <dba@richyen.com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: query plan with index having a btrim is different for strings of different length
Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2008 14:39:42 -0500
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> You guys are right.  I tried "Miller" and gave me the same result.  Is there
> any way to tune this so that for the common last names, the query run time
> doesn't jump from <1s to >300s?
> Thanks for the help!

Can you send the output of EXPLAIN ANALYZE for both cases?

...Robert



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