On Tue, 31 Jul 2007 17:30:51 +0000 Andreas Joseph Krogh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi all. I have the following schema: > > CREATE TABLE test ( > id integer NOT NULL, > field character varying NOT NULL, > value character varying NOT NULL > ); > > ALTER TABLE ONLY test > ADD CONSTRAINT test_id_key UNIQUE (id, field, value); > > CREATE INDEX test_like_idx ON test USING btree (id, field, value > varchar_pattern_ops); > > Using INTERSECT I want to retrieve the rows matching (pseudo-code) > "firstname LIKE ('andrea%' OR 'jose%') AND lastname LIKE 'kro%'" Why not: WHERE (t.field = lastname AND t.value LIKE 'kro%') OR (t.field = firsname AND ( t.value LIKE 'jose%' OR t.value LIKE 'andrea%') ) Not tested. If you're having performance problems is probably less like that the INTERSECT is the problem with all those LIKE's in there? Is t.value indexed? Josh ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map settings