On Mon, Apr 05, 2010 at 04:28:35PM +0200, Oliver Kindernay wrote: > 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. add trigger to remove spaces from end of string on insert and update, and then use normal = operator. Best regards, depesz -- Linkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/in/depesz / blog: http://www.depesz.com/ jid/gtalk: depesz@xxxxxxxxxx / aim:depeszhdl / skype:depesz_hdl / gg:6749007 -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance