On Mon, May 20, 2019 at 09:37:34PM +0000, Deepak Somaiya wrote:
wow this is interesting! 
@Tom, Bruce, David - Experts
Any idea why would changing the datatype would cause so much degradation - this 
is even when plan remains the same ,data is same.
Deepak
   On Friday, May 17, 2019, 2:36:05 AM PDT, Naik, Sameer <sameer_n...@bmc.com> 
wrote:


Deepak,

I changed the datatype from citext to text and now everything works fine.

The data distribution is same, plan is same, yet there is a huge performance 
degradation when citext is used instead of text.

However the business case requires case insensitive string handling.

I am looking forward to some expert advice here when dealing with citext data 
type.



It's generally a good idea to share explain analyze output for both
versions of the query - both with citext and text.


regards

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