How do I retreive text very QUICKLY from the database ? . . .

From: "Peter E(dot) Chen" <pchen3(at)jhmi(dot)edu>
To: "Postgres (General)" <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: How do I retreive text very QUICKLY from the database ? . . .
Date: 2002-01-24 16:42:53
Message-ID: JBEOIGCPFENBBBIKPPLCKENICAAA.pchen3@jhmi.edu
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Hey All,

I am trying to find a way to retreive character data from a table very
quickly. My data is a large string (about 250 MB worth of text) of DNA
sequence. I am currently storing the data as a Postgres "text" datatype.
The character data is in its own table and occupies one row and one column.

I would like to retreive a substring from this very long string. I have
tried the built-in Postgres string functions to get a substring out from the
table, but it is too slow. Is there a very fast way to retreive substrings
of character data from the database?

Does changing the datatype help (instead of using the "text" datatype)?

Thank you for any help.

Sincerely,
Peter

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