Hello,
On Dec 25, 2012, at 1:37 PM, Haifeng Liu <liuhaif...@live.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I found that queries like "select * from tbl where col1 like 'abc%'" will use
> index only when the col1(and the index) use 'C' collation. If I use 'default'
> which is 'en_US.utf8' in my database, the equation condition will use the
> index but like query will not.
This is a documented behavior, LIKE with a default operator class only works
with C locale.
>
> I also tried to specify the collation explicitly: like ('abc%' collate
> 'en_US.utf8'), not work too.
>
> Is that only 'C' collation support 'like' query or I missed something in my
> sql? Or do I need to install something additional to support index on other
> collation?
You need to add a new index with a special operator class called
'text_pattern_ops' (or 'varchar_pattern_ops), i.e:
CREATE INDEX col1_pattern_idx ON tbl(col1 text_pattern_ops);
This index will be used in LIKE queries under non-C locale. You also need to
preserve your existing default (aka text_ops) indexes if you want comparison or
inequality operations on the col1 column to be indexed.
Refer to http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/indexes-opclass.html for
more details.
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