On Fri, Jun 3, 2016 at 12:13 PM, Greg Navis <contact@gregnavis.com> wrote:
> Thanks for answers and sorry for not searching hard enough.
>
> I'm curious ... would it be difficult to modify PostgreSQL so that it'd use
> the index for `similarity(lhs, rhs) >= show_limit()` too?
Yes, that would be very difficult. The project has kind of painted
itself into a corner on that.
If it were easy, I doubt we would have added the % operator with the
ugly set_limit() wart in the first place (although I was not around at
the time that was done--maybe there were other considerations).
Cheers,
Jeff