Hi, I have table with just on column named url (it's not real url, just random string for testing purposes), type text. I have lots of entries in it (it's dynamic, i add and remove them on the fly), 100 000 and more. I've created index on this table to optimize "searching". I just want to test if some "url" is in in the table, so i am using this request: select url from test2 where url ~* '^URLVALUE\\s*$'; there's \\s* because of padding. Here is the analyze: postgres=# explain analyze select url from test2 where url ~* '^zyxel\\s*$'; WARNING: nonstandard use of \\ in a string literal LINE 1: ...plain analyze select url from test2 where url ~* '^zyxel\\s... ^ HINT: Use the escape string syntax for backslashes, e.g., E'\\'. QUERY PLAN ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Seq Scan on test2 (cost=0.00..1726.00 rows=10 width=9) (actual time=156.489..156.502 rows=1 loops=1) Filter: (url ~* '^zyxel\\s*$'::text) Total runtime: 156.538 ms (3 rows) It takes 156 ms, it's too much for my purposes, so i want to decrease it. So what can I use for optimizing this request? Again, I just want to test if "url" ("zyxel" in this examlpe) is in the table. Some info: version(): PostgreSQL 8.4.2 on i486-slackware-linux-gnu, compiled by GCC gcc (GCC) 4.3.3, 32-bit Ram: 500 MB CPU: 2.6 Ghz (it's kvm virtualized, i don't know exact type, it's one core cpu) Thank you. -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance