On Fri, 16 May 2008, Scott Marlowe wrote:

Well, I'm guessing that you aren't in locale=C and that the text

Correct, I am not. And my understanding is that by moving to the C locale, I would loose utf8 validation, so I don't want to go there. Though, it's news to me that I would get any kind of select performance boost with locale=C. Why would it help?

functions in your query aren't indexed.  Try creating an index on them
something like:

create index abc_txtfield_func on mytable (substring(textfield,1,5));

etc and see if that helps.

It does not. :(

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