Re: getting ILIKE or ~* to use indexes....

Thanks Josh

I normally use tsearch for full text search i will probably use that
or may be this what u suggested.

regds
mallah.

> Rajesh,
>
>> I want my query to use indexes for company name searches but its not happening unless
>> is use '=' which does not server the purpose.
>>
>> eg
>>
>> tradein_clients=# explain SELECT co_name FROM unified_data where co_name ilike '%rajesh%' ;
>
> Well, for an *anchored* case-insensitive search, you can create an index on lower(field_name)
> to use an index.
>
> CREATE INDEX idx_uni_co_name ON unifed_data(lower(co_name));
> SELECT co_name FROM unified_data where
> lower(co_name) LIKE (lower('rajesh') || '%') ;
>
> And that will use the index.
>
> However, what you are doing is an *unanchored* text search, meaning that you are searching for
> 'rajesh' anywhere in the field. No standard index can help you with that.
>
> Instead, you should look into Full Text Search tools. There's a simple one in /contrib in the
> Postgresql source, and an more robust one
> available from the OpenFTS project.
>
> -Josh Berkus

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