An alternative, which may work well for you: create an
index on a substring (say, the first five or six
characters) of each word, and match against that. To
index on a substring, you will need to create a
function, something like:
CREATE FUNCTION word_substring(text) RETURNS text AS'
SELECT substr($1, 1, 5);
'LANGUAGE SQL
WITH (iscachable);
CREATE INDEX word_substring_index ON word_table
(word_substring(word));
--- Marin Dimitrov <marin.dimitrov@sirma.bg> wrote:
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <arnaud.mlist1@free.fr>
>
>
> >
> > And what I want to built a query that tells me if
> a word given in argument
> can
> > be found at least partially in the database.
> Something like
> >
> > select * from twords where words||'%' like
> 'saxophones';
> >
> > works but uses a sequential scan on the table...
> >
>
>
> try
>
http://techdocs.postgresql.org/techdocs/fulltextindexing.php
>
> hth,
>
> Marin
>
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