Hi, How can we boost performance of queries containing pattern matching characters? In my case, we're using a percent sign (%) that matches any string of zero or more characters. QUERY: DELETE FROM MYTABLE WHERE EMAIL ILIKE '%domain.com%' EMAIL column is VARCHAR(256). As it is clear from the above query, email is matched "partially and case-insensitively", which my application requirement demands. In case, if it were a full match, I could easily define a functional INDEX on EMAIL column (lower(EMAIL)) and I could rewrite my DELETE where criteria like lower(EMAIL) = 'someemail@xxxxxxxxxx'. MYTABLE currently contains 2 million records and grows consistently. Regards, Gnanam -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance
