Re: jsonb case insensitive search

I apologize before hand replying again on my own reply . I know it is frowned upon . My inline comments.

> On Jun 1, 2017, at 2:05 PM, armand pirvu <armand(dot)pirvu(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
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> Thank you Karl and David
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> Ideally as far as I can tell the index would need to be show_id, file_id, lower(…)
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> The question is if this is possible ?
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> Thanks
> Armand
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>> On Jun 1, 2017, at 12:24 PM, Karl Czajkowski <karlcz(at)isi(dot)edu> wrote:
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>> On May 31, armand pirvu modulated:
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>>> The idea is that I would like to avoid having an index for each key
>>> possibly wanted to search, but rather say have the whole record then
>>> search by the key and get the key value, thus having one index serving
>>> multiple purposes so to speak
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>> First, benchmarking would be important to figure out if any proposed
>> indexing actually speeds up the kinds of queries you want to perform.
>> With the recently added parallel query features, a simpler indexing
>> scheme with some brute-force search might be adequate?
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Not sure what you mean by benchmarking
But I think comparative times , aka 2 seconds vs a couple milliseconds is quite a difference.
A table scan while in certain cases is okay , in a case when there is heavy usage on the same part/area , it will become a problem.

>> But, you could use a search idiom like this:
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>> (lower(json_column::text)::json) -> lower('key') = 'value'::json
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>> This will down-convert the case on all values and keys. The left-hand
>> parenthetic expression could be precomputed in an expression index to
>> avoid repeated case conversion. But, typical searches will still have
>> to scan the whole index to perform the projection and match the final
>> value tests on the right-hand side.
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>> If you want to do things like substring matching on field values, you
>> might stick with text and using regexp matches:
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>> (lower(json_column::text)) ~ ‘valuepattern'

In this case a regular index will be ignored even though IMO it should scan the index and get the needed information
The criteria I am after gets back 9 rows max out of 100k+ records so I say the restriction is darn good. Wouldn’t that be the case for the optimizer to pick the path with the least resistance aka best restriction ? Granted it uses a lower function which and the search in the text column which is the third in the index is not really starting form left. But the index starts with show_id , file_id and those are always part of the key. I can see though once the show_id, file_id is NOT a good restriction anymore , than the last column will make the difference . Either case will that not translate into an index scan ? Or the index to be considered in this case, event the last column search has to follow the left to right, aka not in between search ?

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>> or more structural searches:
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>> (lower(json_column::text)) ~ '"key": "[^"]*substring[^"]*"'
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>> Here, the left-hand expression could be trigram indexed to help with
>> sparse, substring matching without a full index scan. We've had good
>> luck using trigram indexing with regexp matching, though I've honestly
>> never used it for the purpose sketched above...
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>> Karl
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Seems to me trigram could be the answer since I have some decent results once I applied it, more to dig

Overall could it be that the optimizer blatantly ignores a scan index which is cheaper than a table scan, or jsonb implementation still has a long way to come up or the way it is used in my case is not the one designed for ?

thanks
Armand