Hello,
I've searched the mailing list and I tried using defining a xpath index per
the post, but my query is still not using it.
Essentially, I'm storing a fragment of xml and I want to create xpath
indexes on them.
The two rows I'm going to insert look like this (alex & bob are the only
names repeated):
<names><name>frank</name><name>mason</name><name>bob</name><name>alex</name></names>
<names><name>alex</name><name>bob</name><name>cola</name><name>doda</name></names>
create table test (data xml);
CREATE TABLE
CREATE INDEX name_test ON test (((xpath('//names/name/text()',
data))[1]::text));
CREATE INDEX
I can select with a where clause without issue:
select * from test where ((xpath('//names/name[. ="bob"]/text()',
data))[1]::text) = 'bob';
data
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
<names><name>alex</name><name>bob</name><name>cola</name><name>doda</name></names>
<names><name>frank</name><name>mason</name><name>bob</name><name>alex</name></names>
(2 rows)
However, when I check which index it's using, it's not using the xpath
index:
explain select * from test where ((xpath('//names/name[. ="bob"]/text()',
data))[1]::text) = 'bob';
QUERY
PLAN
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Seq Scan on test (cost=0.00..1.03 rows=1 width=32)
Filter: (((xpath('//names/name[. ="bob"]/text()'::text, data,
'{}'::text[]))[1])::text = 'bob'::text)
(2 rows)
Any help on what I'm doing wrong would be appreciated.
