With ILIKE or extension CITEXT, does it have any impact on Indexes, like
not picking index ?

ILIKE works only for operator LIKE not for operator =

CITEXT seems some possibilities,

Thanks
Sridhar


On Thu, Mar 28, 2019 at 2:07 PM Sameer Kumar <sameer.ku...@ashnik.com>
wrote:

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> On Thu, 28 Mar, 2019, 4:33 PM Steve Atkins, <st...@blighty.com> wrote:
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>> > On Mar 28, 2019, at 8:29 AM, Ron <ronljohnso...@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> > On 3/28/19 3:23 AM, Sameer Kumar wrote:
>> > [snip]
>> >> You can write a query with upper function:
>> >>
>> >> select * from emp where upper(ename)=upper('aaa');
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>> > That's a guaranteed table scan.
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>> Unless you have an index on upper(ename).
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> Yup, with this or overloading "=", one can create an expression based
> index and benefit from it.
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>> Cheers,
>>   Steve
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