Hi communities, I am investigating a performance issue involved with LIKE 'xxxx%' on an index in a complex query with joins. The problem boils down into this simple scenario---: ====Scenario==== My database locale is C, using UTF-8 encoding. I tested this on 9.1.6 and 9. 2.1. Q1. SELECT * FROM shipments WHERE shipment_id LIKE '12345678%' Q2. SELECT * FROM shipments WHERE shipment_id >= '12345678' AND shipment_id < '12345679' shipments is a table with million rows and 20 columns. Shipment_id is the primary key with text and non-null field. CREATE TABLE cod.shipments ( shipment_id text NOT NULL, -- other columns omitted CONSTRAINT shipments_pkey PRIMARY KEY (shipment_id) ) Analyze Q1 gives this: Index Scan using shipments_pkey on shipments (cost=0.00..39.84 rows=1450 width=294) (actual time=0.018..0.018 rows=1 loops=1) Index Cond: ((shipment_id >= '12345678'::text) AND (shipment_id < '12345679'::text)) Filter: (shipment_id ~~ '12345678%'::text) Buffers: shared hit=4 Analyze Q2 gives this: Index Scan using shipments_pkey on shipments (cost=0.00..39.83 rows=1 width=294) (actual time=0.027..0.027 rows=1 loops=1) Index Cond: ((shipment_id >= '12345678'::text) AND (shipment_id < '12345679'::text)) Buffers: shared hit=4 ====Problem Description==== In Q1, the planner thought there will be 1450 rows, and Q2 gave a much better estimate of 1. The problem is when I combine such condition with a join to other table, postgres will prefer a merge join (or hash) rather than a nested loop. ====Question==== Is Q1 and Q2 equivalent? From what I see and the result they seems to be the same, or did I miss something? (Charset: C, Encoding: UTF-8) If they are equivalent, is that a bug of the planner? Many Thanks, Sam -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance
