Re: Query results caching?

From: Ron Mayer <rm_pg(at)cheapcomplexdevices(dot)com>
To: Dann Corbit <DCorbit(at)connx(dot)com>
Subject: Re: Query results caching?
Date: 2005-08-25 16:07:21
Message-ID: 430DECB9.3080003@cheapcomplexdevices.com
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Dann Corbit wrote:
>
> If I have a 4 million row table, with long rows and big varchar columns
> and I run a query on a column like this:
>
> SELECT * FROM inventory WHERE product LIKE '%Table%'
>
> It isn't going to be fast on any system with any database.

Hypothetically it seems one could theoretically use some sort
of GIST index not unlike the contrib/trigram stuff to speed
up like clauses like that. If so, I wonder if down the road
that could be a nice competitive advantage over systems with
less flexible index systems. Is that a possible TODO?

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