Re: How to boost performance of queries containing pattern matching characters

On 14/02/11 07:28, Gnanakumar wrote:
>> Is that really what you are after? Or, did you just want to match:
>>     user1@domain.com
>>     user2@sub.domain.com
>
> I understand that because I've (%) at the beginning and end, it's going to
> match unrelated domains, etc., which as you said rightly, it is
> wide-ranging.  But my point here is that how can I improve performance of
> the queries containing pattern matching characters.

If you really need to match all those options, you can't use an index. A
substring-matching index would need to have multiple entries per
character per value (since it doesn't know what you will search for).
The index-size becomes unmanageable very quickly.

That's why I asked what you really wanted to match.

So, I'll ask again: do you really want to match all of those options?

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   Richard Huxton
   Archonet Ltd