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From: hubert depesz lubaczewski <depesz@depesz.com>
To: Rodrigo De León <rdeleonp@gmail.com>
Cc: Fernando Hevia <fhevia@ip-tel.com.ar>
Cc: Kiran <kumar.m.kiran@gmail.com>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Best Fit SQL query statement
Date: Sat, 11 Aug 2007 11:06:44 +0200
Message-ID: <20070811090644.GA5255@depesz.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a55915760708101813u5e5aab6cv198f7c7348083a95@mail.gmail.com>
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On Fri, Aug 10, 2007 at 08:13:46PM -0500, Rodrigo De León wrote:
> On 8/10/07, hubert depesz lubaczewski <depesz@depesz.com> wrote:
> > unfortunatelly this query will be hard to optimize.
> 
> Uh, how about
> 
> SELECT MAX(t1)
>   FROM t1
>  WHERE '9849' LIKE t1 || '%';

it will not help much as the main burden is the where clause, which is
not indexable.

depesz

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