On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 09:39:47PM +0100, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 12:40:32PM -0600, Jim C. Nasby wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 02:44:47AM +0100, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > > > "cooperative" runs "WHERE kernel_version NOT LIKE '%% PREEMPT %%'", while > > > "preempt" runs "WHERE kernel_version LIKE '%% PREEMPT %%'. The only difference > > > > One thing you could do is change the like to: > > > > WHERE position(' PREEMPT ' in kernel_version) != 0 > > That alone fixed it, with this I don't even need the index (yet). Thanks > a lot. The fix is online already w/o index: http://klive.cpushare.com/?branch=all&scheduler=preemptive Of course I'm still fully available to test any fix for the previous LIKE query if there's interest.