Hi.

There seems to be an "unimplemented" area around getting statistics for
wildcard searches done. Wildcards anchored to the left can be matched
up by the gin-index and the ts_match_vq operator:


testdb=# select to_tsvector('project') @@ to_tsquery('proj:*');
 ?column?
----------
 t
(1 row)

Searching for project gives me this estimate:
testdb=# explain select id,document_tsvector from efam.reference where document_tsvector @@ to_tsquery('projects') order by id limit 50;
                                           QUERY PLAN
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 Limit  (cost=0.00..3008.54 rows=50 width=76)
-> Index Scan using reference_pkey on reference (cost=0.00..3762544.72 rows=62531 width=76)
         Filter: (document_tsvector @@ to_tsquery('projects'::text))
(3 rows)

whereas searching for proj:* gives:

testdb=# explain select id,document_tsvector from efam.reference where document_tsvector @@ to_tsquery('proj:*') order by id limit 50;
                                         QUERY PLAN
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 Limit  (cost=73.56..73.58 rows=6 width=76)
   ->  Sort  (cost=73.56..73.58 rows=6 width=76)
         Sort Key: id
-> Bitmap Heap Scan on reference (cost=34.55..73.49 rows=6 width=76) Recheck Cond: (document_tsvector @@ to_tsquery('proj:*'::text)) -> Bitmap Index Scan on reference_fts_idx (cost=0.00..34.54 rows=6 width=0) Index Cond: (document_tsvector @@ to_tsquery('proj:*'::text))
(7 rows)

There are abouvios challenges in getting statistics for submatches where there are no real information in the pg_stats table, but there will also be a huge amount of cases where a fairly reliable
guess can be extracted.

--
Jesper

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