"sumit kumar" <talk2mitsu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Can any1 please please help me know how pgsql estimates the cardinality of > LIKE operator ?? See patternsel() and subsidiary routines in http://developer.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql/src/backend/utils/adt/selfuncs.c for whichever version you are interested in. (This code has changed often enough that there's no version-independent answer to your question.) regards, tom lane