Re: sequential scan performance

Thanks everyone for all the  suggestions.  I'll check into those
contrib modules.

Michael
On May 29, 2005, at 2:44 PM, Oleg Bartunov wrote:

> Michael,
>
> I'd recommend our contrib/pg_trgm module, which provides
> trigram based fuzzy search and return results ordered by similarity
> to your query.  Read http://www.sai.msu.su/~megera/postgres/gist/
> pg_trgm/README.pg_trgm
> for more details.
>
> Oleg
> On Sun, 29 May 2005, Michael Engelhart wrote:
>
>
>> Hi -
>>
>> I have a table of about 3 million rows of city "aliases" that I
>> need to query using LIKE - for example:
>>
>> select * from city_alias where city_name like '%FRANCISCO'
>>
>>
>> When I do an EXPLAIN ANALYZE on the above query, the result is:
>>
>> Seq Scan on city_alias  (cost=0.00..59282.31 rows=2 width=42)
>> (actual time=73.369..3330.281 rows=407 loops=1)
>>   Filter: ((name)::text ~~ '%FRANCISCO'::text)
>> Total runtime: 3330.524 ms
>> (3 rows)
>>
>>
>> this is a query that our system needs to do a LOT.   Is there any
>> way to improve the performance on this either with changes to our
>> query or by configuring the database deployment?   We have an
>> index on city_name but when using the % operator on the front of
>> the query string postgresql can't use the index .
>>
>> Thanks for any help.
>>
>> Mike
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>
>     Regards,
>         Oleg
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