Oh, I understand. It is because you want different limits for
restaurants and cinemas?
I see only one solution. It is custom extension, which will create
operator class similar to gin_trgm_ops and will depends on pg_trgm. In
gin_trgm_consistent() you can use your own limit variable.
As I know functions do not use indexes.
Of course I may be wrong. And somebody knows a better solution.
On 03.06.2016 14:24, Greg Navis wrote:
Artur, thanks for your reply. That's right, `%` does use the index. The
goal of using `similarity(lhs, rhs) >= show_limit()` was to replace
`show_limit()` with a custom, per-query limit. I noticed that the latter
approach does _not_ use the index, hence my question:
grn=# EXPLAIN ANALYZE SELECT * FROM restaurants WHERE city % 'warsw';
QUERY
PLAN
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Bitmap Heap Scan on restaurants (cost=24.28..1319.36 rows=515
width=10) (actual time=96.081..96.456 rows=400 loops=1)
Recheck Cond: ((city)::text % 'warsw'::text)
Heap Blocks: exact=359
-> Bitmap Index Scan on restaurants_city_gist_trgm_idx
(cost=0.00..24.15 rows=515 width=0) (actual time=96.030..96.030
rows=400 loops=1)
Index Cond: ((city)::text % 'warsw'::text)
Planning time: 0.211 ms
Execution time: 96.528 ms
(7 rows)
grn=# EXPLAIN ANALYZE SELECT * FROM restaurants WHERE similarity(city,
'warsw') >= show_limit();
QUERY PLAN
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Seq Scan on restaurants (cost=0.00..11692.81 rows=171825 width=10)
(actual time=14.520..692.520 rows=400 loops=1)
Filter: (similarity((city)::text, 'warsw'::text) >= show_limit())
Rows Removed by Filter: 515075
Planning time: 0.109 ms
Execution time: 692.560 ms
(5 rows)
If this functionality isn't supported then it might be a good idea for a
contribution.
Best regards
On Fri, Jun 3, 2016 at 12:51 PM, Artur Zakirov <a.zakirov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
<mailto:a.zakirov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
Hello.
As I know 'lhs % rhs' is equivalent to 'similarity(lhs, rhs) >=
show_limit()'.
And so your query should looks like this:
SELECT * FROM restaurants WHERE city % 'warsw';
And it should use index.
On 03.06.2016 13:35, Greg Navis wrote:
Hey!
I'm playing with pg_trgm. It seems that `lhs % rhs` is _almost_
equivalent to `similarity(lhs, rhs) < show_limit()`. The
difference that
I noticed is that `%` uses a GIN index while `similarity` does not.
```
grn=# \d restaurants
Table "public.restaurants"
Column | Type | Modifiers
--------+------------------------+-----------
city | character varying(255) | not null
Indexes:
"restaurants_city_trgm_idx" gin (city gin_trgm_ops)
grn=# SELECT COUNT(*) FROM restaurants;
count
--------
515475
(1 row)
Time: 45.964 ms
grn=# EXPLAIN ANALYZE SELECT * FROM restaurants WHERE
similarity(city,
'warsw') > show_limit();
QUERY PLAN
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Seq Scan on restaurants (cost=0.00..11692.81 rows=171825 width=10)
(actual time=16.436..665.062 rows=360 loops=1)
Filter: (similarity((city)::text, 'warsw'::text) > show_limit())
Rows Removed by Filter: 515115
Planning time: 0.139 ms
Execution time: 665.105 ms
(5 rows)
Time: 665.758 ms
```
My question is: is it possible to make `similarity` use the
index? If
not, is there a way to speed up the query above?
Best regards
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