On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 8:49 PM, Alvaro Herrera
<alvhe...@commandprompt.com> wrote:
> Tore Halvorsen escribió:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Is it possible to use an index for like queries on a citext column?
>> I'm using pg 8.4.1 on windows - with no changes to the default configuration.
>>
>> For example:
>>
>> CREATE TABLE test ( citext citext NOT NULL );
>> INSERT INTO test select md5(random()::text) FROM generate_series(0, 1000000, 
>> 1);
>> CREATE INDEX test_citext_idx ON test USING btree(citext);
>
> Hmm, I think this needs one of the *_pattern_ops indexes.  I'm not sure
> if you can use the builtin ones with citext though.

Yeah, I started looking at something like that - sadly after I sent my mail.

Looks like I'm stuck with lower(text_col) for now...

Thanks anyway :)

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