| From: | Amit Langote <amitlangote09(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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| To: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> |
| Cc: | PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Behavior of a pg_trgm index for 2 (or < 3) character LIKE queries |
| Date: | 2013-05-30 15:00:51 |
| Message-ID: | CA+HiwqFv0efdd_PA4cmS3E7_f18mdB0vPKkB=joF_y4qN+dy3Q@mail.gmail.com |
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On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 11:47 PM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 10:51 PM, Amit Langote <amitlangote09(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>> So, it appears, for search strings consisting of 2 (or < 3)
>> characters, trigrams can not be utilized. No?
>
> I think that's right. "trigram" means a sequence of three characters,
> and what's stored in the indexes are three-character sequences from
> the original text.
>
Was there any improvement to pg_trgm in recent past that could make it
better for partial matching (the case in question I suppose) or is
partial-matching a different thing altogether?
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Amit Langote
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