Re: Ltree usage..

On Fri, 2 Aug 2002, Rajesh Kumar Mallah. wrote:

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> Hi Oleg,
>
> I am trying to use contrib/ltree for one of my applications.
>
> the query below works fine for me.
>
> Qry1: SELECT path from unified_data where path ~ '*.180.*' and path ~ '*.1.*';
>
> is there any way of compacting it for example
>
> Qry2: SELECT path from unified_data where path ~ '*.180.*' or path ~ '*.1.*'; is better
> written as
> Qry3: SELECT path from unified_data where path ~ '*.180|1.*' ;

Qry2 and Qry3 are equvalent and Qry3 is faster but not much.
But Qry1 is not the same as Qry2 !!!

Qry1 could be rewritten as:

SELECT path from unified_data where path @ '180 & 1';

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> also is qry3 better to Qry2 in terms of performance?
>
> regds
> mallah.
>
>
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>

Regards,
Oleg
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