On Wed, 22 Nov 2006, Alexander Presber wrote: > Hello everybody, > > I am trying to speed up a query on an integer column by defining an > index as follows > > > CREATE INDEX idx_main_subject ON pdb.main (lower(main_subject::text) > using varchar_ops); > > on column "main_subject". > > I had hoped to get speedups for right-fuzzy LIKE-searches,
IIRC, unless you're in C locale, you'll want varchar_pattern_ops rather than varchar_ops on the index to make it considered for a LIKE search. ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map settings
