doh!  tom, let me know if you decide to hack out a fix for this one of
these nights ;)
thanks for your help.

On Feb 19, 2008 9:45 PM, Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> "Postgres User" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > Yes that works, but the whole point of the exercise is replace many OR
> > statements with 1 regex expression.  So it's not what I'm looking for.
>
> Unfortunately, Postgres is not as intelligent as you are.  There is
> no mechanism to rewrite a multi-branch regex condition into multiple
> indexscans.  I recommend going back to the OR's.
>
>                         regards, tom lane
>

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