Re: Tsearch2 really slower than ilike ?

>>or more.
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>Yes site name ... is company names or web site name ... so not many word in
>each record ... but I don't understand why more words are more efficient than
>few words ?? sorry ...
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Well there are a couple of reasons but the easiest one is index size.
An ILIKE btree index is in general going to be much smaller than a gist
index.
The smaller the index the faster it is searched.

Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drake



>Regards,
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