Re: How to get around LIKE inefficiencies?

At 23:12 5/11/00 -0400, The Hermit Hacker wrote:
>
>Except, if we are telling it to get rid of using the index, may as well
>get rid of it altogether, as updates/inserts would be slowed down by
>having to update that too ...
>

So long as you don't ever need the index for anything else, then getting
rid of it is by far the best solution. But, eg, if you want to check if a
page is already indexed you will probably end up with a sequential search.


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