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From: T E Schmitz <mailreg@numerixtechnology.de>
To: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: INDEX and LIKE
Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 12:19:12 +0000
Message-ID: <41AB13C0.40909@numerixtechnology.de> (raw)

Hello,

I need to be able to perform wildcard searches on a VARCHAR(100) column 
of the form

SELECT * FROM item WHERE serial_no LIKE '%12345678%'

Would an index on serial_no do anything at all for this search?

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Regards/Gruß,

Tarlika Elisabeth Schmitz

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