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From: Scott Marlowe <scott.marlowe@gmail.com>
To: AI Rumman <rummandba@gmail.com>
Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: index is not using?
Date: Tue, 9 Feb 2010 01:33:13 -0700
Message-ID: <dcc563d11002090033h758f608di7ea512f9074fc00a@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
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References: <2a7905441002082355w72ec4b2br9b406f186d87c12a@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 12:55 AM, AI Rumman <rummandba@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have created a index
> create index leadaddress_phone_idx on
> leadaddress(regexp_replace((phone)::text, '[^0-9]*'::text, ''::text,
> 'g'::text));
>
> But the index is not using.

like '%yada'

isn't capable of using an index.  If it's left anchored:

like 'yada%'

it can.



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