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To: "Carlo Stonebanks" <stonec.register@sympatico.ca>
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Comments: In-reply-to "Carlo Stonebanks" <stonec.register@sympatico.ca>
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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
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"Carlo Stonebanks" <stonec.register@sympatico.ca> writes:
> But is there any way to create an index expression that will help with:
> where foo like '%bar%'?

If you are concerned about that, what you are probably really looking
for is full-text indexing.  See contrib/tsearch2 for our current best
answer to that.

			regards, tom lane