Re: UTF8MatchText

Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> writes:
> Yeah, quite possibly. I'm also wondering if we are wasting effort
> downcasing what will in most cases be the same pattern over and over
> again. Maybe we need to look at memoizing that somehow, or at least test
> to see if that would be a gain.

Someone (Itagaki-san IIRC) suggested that we ought to convert
"x ILIKE y" into "lower(x) LIKE lower(y)" at some fairly early
stage, definitely before constant-folding in the planner.  That
would take care of that issue without any run-time mechanism,
and would open opportunities for making use of an index on lower(x).

I recall thinking at the time that there were some potential downsides,
but right at the moment I'm darned if I can see any --- especially
if we're going to make ILIKE do this uniformly at runtime anyway.

            regards, tom lane