Re: NOT LIKE much faster than LIKE?

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On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 09:39:47PM +0100, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> > CREATE INDEX indexname ON tablename ( position(' PREEMPT ' in kernel_version) );
> 
> The index only helps the above query with = 0 and not the one with != 0,
> but it seems not needed in practice.

Hrm. If you need indexing then, you'll probably have to do 2 indexes
with a WHERE clause...

CREATE INDEX ... WHERE position(...) = 0;
CREATE INDEX ... WHERE position(...) != 0;

I suspect this is because of a lack of stats for functional indexes.
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