> I'm beginning a port of an Oracle application to PostgrSQL. One > immediate issue is the use of the Oracle 'contains' operator to do > whole word searches on table rows that contain blank separated lists of > names. I was told that the original application was written using the > 'like' operator but the contains operator was found to be much faster. > > Is there a PostgreSQL equivalent for this type of use of the Oracle > contains?
The other methods are to use regular expressions, but I do not expect them to be any faster than a like. Have you looked at the contrib module tsearch2? http://www.sai.msu.su/~megera/postgres/gist/tsearch/V2/ Regards, Richard Broersma Jr. ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly
