On Wed, 27 Feb 2008, Dan Kaplan wrote:
I've got a lot of rows in one table and a lot of rows in another table. I want to do a bunch of queries on their join column. One of these is like this: t1.col like '%t2.col%'
We have an idea how to speedup wildcard search at the expense of the size - we have to index all permutation of the original word. Then we could
use GIN for quieries like a*b.
I know that always sucks. I'm wondering how I can make it better. First, I should let you know that I can likely hold both of these tables entirely in ram. Since that's the case, would it be better to accomplish this with my programming language? Also you should know that in most cases, t1.col and t2.col is 2 words or less. I'm not sure if that matters, I mention it because it may make tsearch2 perform badly.
contrib/pg_trgm should help you.
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