Re: SELECT with LIKE clause makes full table scan

From: Julien Rouhaud <rjuju123(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Matthias Apitz <guru(at)unixarea(dot)de>
Cc: Dominique Devienne <ddevienne(at)gmail(dot)com>, Josef Šimánek <josef(dot)simanek(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-general <pgsql-general(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: SELECT with LIKE clause makes full table scan
Date: 2022-01-26 15:21:12
Message-ID: CAOBaU_ZXuCZ1pigaoiBbq_23qcvWqEvLbyy1EmVQWYkVuMFJ8Q@mail.gmail.com
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Hi,

On Wed, Jan 26, 2022 at 11:07 PM Matthias Apitz <guru(at)unixarea(dot)de> wrote:
>
> We changed two relevant Indexes to
>
> CREATE INDEX d01ort ON d01buch(d01ort bpchar_pattern_ops );
> CREATE INDEX d01ort2 ON d01buch(d01ort2 bpchar_pattern_ops );

When you said changed, did you drop the previous ones? As Tom
mentioned, those indexes are specialized and are only useful for LIKE
'something%' queries. It's quite likely that your existing indexes
were useful for other queries, which may not be as fast without those
indexes. You can check in pg_stat_user_indexes if your indexes seems
to be used before actually dropping them for instance:
https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/monitoring-stats.html#MONITORING-PG-STAT-ALL-INDEXES-VIEW

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