"Guillaume Smet" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It's better but still slower than 8.2.
It probablly comes from 'var-varlena' feature in 8.3. Now we store text fields in a compact format on disks and extract them on access. It consumes some CPU cycles. If all of data are in buffer cache and the encoding of database is single-byte encodings, the performance of LIKE in 8.3 was 10-20% slower than 8.2 on my tests. Regards, --- ITAGAKI Takahiro NTT Open Source Software Center ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly