Hi all,
I have to provide a pretty standard query that should return every row where the NAME attribute begins with a specific string. The type of the NAME column is varchar. I do have an index for this column. One would think that Postgres will use the index to look up the matches, but apparently that is not the case. It performs a full table scan. My query looks something like this:
SELECT * FROM table WHERE name LIKE ‘smith%’;
Does anyone know a way to “force” the optimizer to utilize the index? Is there perhaps another way of doing this?
Thanks for the help!
Jozsef