Re: best practise/pattern for large OR / LIKE searches

Hello

one year ago there was proposal for index support for LIKE %some%. The
problem was extreme size of index size.

I thing so you can write own C function, that can check string faster
than repeated LIKE

some like

SELECT * FROM tbl WHERE contains(datanumber, '12345','54321',....)

regards
Pavel Stehule

2009/8/26 Ries van Twisk <pg@rvt.dds.nl>:
> Hey All,
> I am wondering if there is a common pattern for these sort of queries :
> SELECT * FROM tbl WHERE datanumber LIKE '%12345%' OR LIKE '%54321%' OR LIKE
> '%8766%' OR LIKE '%009%', ..
> The number of OR/LIKES are in the order of 50-100 items...
> the table tbl is a couple of million rows.
> The datanumber is a string that are maximum 10 characters long, no spaces
> and can contain numbers and letters.
> Apart from creating a couple of index table to make the LIKE left anchored
> something like this :
> tbl <----> tbl_4letters
> tbl <----> tbl_5letters
> tbl <----> tbl_3letters
> or creating a functional index 'of some sort' are there any other brilliant
> ideas out there to solve such a problem (GIN/GIS???) ?
> Searches are currently taking to long and we would like to optimize them,
> but before we dive into our own solution we
> where wondering if there already common solutions for this...
> Kind Regards,
> Ries van Twisk
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