On Mar 12, 2009, at 5:15 PM, Reece Hart wrote:
Do I really need 4 indexes per column to handle the 4 combinations of
{equality,like/regexp} x {unfolded,casefolded} in a UTF-8 encoded
database?
I have a column that I'd like to be able to search with equality and
regexp (or like), optionally casefolded. The database is UTF-8
encoded.
The table and index defs are below.
Jeff Davis gave me a tip to use text_pattern_ops on indexes to speed
up
regexp and like; that worked beautiful. But I discovered a caveat that
t_p_o apparently doesn't handle equality. Thus, I think I need
distinct
indexes for the 4 cases above. Right?
If A=B then lower(A) = lower(B), and if A like B then lower(A) like
lower(B).
So, if nothing else, you could rewrite "where alias = 'Foo'" as
"where lower(alias) = lower('Foo') and alias='Foo'" and take advantage
of the lower() functional index.
I've read that 8.4 will be able to use a text_pattern_ops index for
equality.
Cheers,
Steve
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