Re: "like" and index

[Tony Liao <tonyliao@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

hi Harald,
      I reboot the machine and create index,it works.thanks.

2009/2/26 Harald Fuchs <hari.fuchs@xxxxxxxxx>

In article <8f750b7c0902250259w6065515as350aca3b5d7d8173@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,

Tony Liao <tonyliao@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> hi all,
>       I have a table table_A (id serial,prefix varchar),for example.
>       now I want to get the id of "johnsmith"'s prefix match table_A.prefix,so
> I do select id from table_A where 'johnsmith' like prefix||'%'  ,the table_A is
> very large so I would like to make index. create table_A_index on table_A
> (prefix)
>       I try to explain analyze,but it doesn't work ,it use seq scan.
>       I try another index. drop index table_A_index; create table_A_index on
> table_A(prefix varchar_pattern_ops); it doesn't work,too.

If I understand you correctly, the "prefix" contrib package is what
you need:

 CREATE TABLE tableA (
   id serial NOT NULL,
   prefix prefix_range NOT NULL,
   PRIMARY KEY (id)
 );

 CREATE INDEX tableA_prefix_ix on tableA
 USING gist (prefix gist_prefix_range_ops);

 COPY tableA (prefix) FROM stdin;
 john
 tom
 anne
 jim
 \.

 INSERT INTO tableA (prefix)
 SELECT x || 'test'
 FROM generate_series (1, 10000) g(x);

 ANALYZE tableA;

 EXPLAIN ANALYZE
 SELECT id, prefix
 FROM tableA
 WHERE prefix @> 'johnsmith';

will return something like that:

 Bitmap Heap Scan on tablea  (cost=4.33..32.10 rows=10 width=19) (actual time=0.035..0.036 rows=1 loops=1)
  Recheck Cond: (prefix @> 'johnsmith[]'::prefix_range)
  ->  Bitmap Index Scan on tablea_prefix_ix  (cost=0.00..4.33 rows=10 width=0) (actual time=0.026..0.026 rows=1 loops=1)
        Index Cond: (prefix @> 'johnsmith[]'::prefix_range)
 Total runtime: 0.133 ms

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