
> > > I am reposting this because I'm not sure it actually
> > > made it to the list.
> > 
> > It did make it to the list, but can you give more
> > details whether or which of the 
> > following you use:
> > 	--enable-locale ?
> > 	--enable-multibyte ?
> > 	LANG=?
> > 	LC_COLLATE=?
> 
> I did not change any of the language or local
> information. My config like is:
> 
> ./configure --with-tcl --with-odbc
> --with-maxbackends=128 --prefix=/usr/local/pgsql 
> 
> > 
> > > I have a function to transform text into a
> > > pseudo-metaphone variable, take this example:
> > 
> > > Here is the problem: Depending on whether there is
> > an
> > > index or not, 'like' behaves differently. Here is
> > a
> > > transcript:
> > > 
> > > cddbsql=# select song, metatext(song) from cdsongs
> > > where metatext(song) like metatext('born to run')
> > > limit 1 ;
> > >     song     | metatext
> > > -------------+----------
> > >  Born To Run | brntorn
> > > (1 row)
> > >  
> > > cddbsql=# create index cdsongs_meta_song on
> > cdsongs
> > > (metatext(song)) ;
> > > CREATE
> > > cddbsql=# select song, metatext(song) from cdsongs
> > > where metatext(song) like metatext('born to run')
> > > limit 1 ;
> > >  song | metatext
> > > ------+----------
> > > (0
> > > rows)
> > 
> > While I do see, that this is bogous, I do not really understand why you 
> > use like in this case when your metatext function does not return any 
> > wildcards. A simple = should lead to the same result. Can you check that
> > with the index in place ? 
> 
> Oddly enough when I use '=' it works, but adding that
> means I have to special case when someone adds '%' at
> the end of the word, which means I will have to parse
> the string comming in. If I add the '%' sign to all
> queries, then I will not get the results intended.

Ah, I wonder wether it might be trailing blanks, that are involved here.
Is your return type of metatext() sql type text ? text and varchar are trailing
blank sensitive. Still sounds strange, that the seq scan ind index scan behaviors 
are different.

> > > This happens in both 7.0 and 7.1.

Wed, 31 Jan 2001 14:07:09 +0100
Zeugswetter Andreas SB  <ZeugswetterA@wien.spardat.at>
AW: AW: Like vs '=' bug with indexing
--- Zeugswetter Andreas SB
<ZeugswetterA@wien.spardat.at> wrote:
> 
> > > > I am reposting this because I'm not sure it
> actually
> > > > made it to the list.
> > > 
> > > It did make it to the list, but can you give
> more
> > > details whether or which of the 
> > > following you use:
> > > 	--enable-locale ?
> > > 	--enable-multibyte ?
> > > 	LANG=?
> > > 	LC_COLLATE=?
> > 
> > I did not change any of the language or local
> > information. My config like is:
> > 
> > ./configure --with-tcl --with-odbc
> > --with-maxbackends=128 --prefix=/usr/local/pgsql 
> > 
> > > 
> > > > I have a function to transform text into a
> > > > pseudo-metaphone variable, take this example:
> > > 
> > > > Here is the problem: Depending on whether
> there is
> > > an
> > > > index or not, 'like' behaves differently. Here
> is
> > > a
> > > > transcript:
> > > > 
> > > > cddbsql=# select song, metatext(song) from
> cdsongs
> > > > where metatext(song) like metatext('born to
> run')
> > > > limit 1 ;
> > > >     song     | metatext
> > > > -------------+----------
> > > >  Born To Run | brntorn
> > > > (1 row)
> > > >  
> > > > cddbsql=# create index cdsongs_meta_song on
> > > cdsongs
> > > > (metatext(song)) ;
> > > > CREATE
> > > > cddbsql=# select song, metatext(song) from
> cdsongs
> > > > where metatext(song) like metatext('born to
> run')
> > > > limit 1 ;
> > > >  song | metatext
> > > > ------+----------
> > > > (0
> > > > rows)
> > > 
> > > While I do see, that this is bogous, I do not
> really understand why you 
> > > use like in this case when your metatext
> function does not return any 
> > > wildcards. A simple = should lead to the same
> result. Can you check that
> > > with the index in place ? 
> > 
> > Oddly enough when I use '=' it works, but adding
> that
> > means I have to special case when someone adds '%'
> at
> > the end of the word, which means I will have to
> parse
> > the string comming in. If I add the '%' sign to
> all
> > queries, then I will not get the results intended.
> 
> Ah, I wonder wether it might be trailing blanks,
> that are involved here.
> Is your return type of metatext() sql type text ?
> text and varchar are trailing
> blank sensitive. Still sounds strange, that the seq
> scan ind index scan behaviors 
> are different.

That doesn't make sense, if there were trailing
blanks, '=' would not work. Also, since the same
function is being used on both ends, one presumes that
any trailing blanks would also be present on each. Why
would spaces kill a 'like' during and index scan, but
not during a table scan?


> 
> > > > This happens in both 7.0 and 7.1.


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Wed, 31 Jan 2001 05:18:27 -0800 (PST)
m w <mttf2000@yahoo.com>
Re: AW: AW: Like vs '=' bug with indexing