From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Index to support LIKE '%suffix' queries
Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2006 12:22:27 -0500
Message-ID: <11673.1140888147@sss.pgh.pa.us> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87mzgfh69m.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de>
References: <87mzgfh69m.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de>
Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de> writes:
> Is it possible to create an index to support queries of the form
> "column LIKE '%suffix'" (similar to an ordinary index for LIKE
> 'prefix%', which I also need)?
Sounds like what you *really* need is full-text search, not half
measures ... have you looked at tsearch2?
regards, tom lane
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