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From: Wiebe Cazemier <halfgaar@gmx.net>
To: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Joins on many-to-many relations.
Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2007 15:16:07 +0100
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On Thursday 15 March 2007 15:05, Rodrigo De León wrote:

> From http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.2/static/indexes-types.html :
> 
> "The optimizer can also use a B-tree index for queries involving the
> pattern matching operators LIKE and ~ if the pattern is a constant and
> is anchored to the beginning of the string ? for example, col LIKE
> 'foo%' or col ~ '^foo', but not col LIKE '%bar'."

It made the query faster (1500 instead of 2500 ms), but not fast enough. But,
this is good to know, although I often need the '%foobar%' search string...




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