Citext Performance

2018-04-17 Thread Deepak Somaiya
Apology for sending you emails directly but I do see you guys responding on email related to performance so thought of copying you folks. Folks, I read following (PostgreSQL: Documentation: 9.6: citext) and it does not hold true in my testing.. i.e citext is not performing better than lower.Am

Re: citext performance

2018-04-08 Thread Deepak Somaiya
It is using index here , it is just that performance i.e query that use functional index (one with lower) is performing better then index created on citext column. Deepak On Sunday, April 8, 2018, 3:13:26 AM PDT, Nandakumar M wrote: Hi, I have also faced the same problem with citext

Re: citext performance

2018-04-08 Thread Nandakumar M
Hi, I have also faced the same problem with citext extension. It does not use index when thereby making it almost unusable. The problem has to do with how collation is handled from what I have read in old threads in postgres mailing list (please refer https://dba.stackexchange.com/questions/105244

citext performance

2018-04-06 Thread Deepak Somaiya
Folks, I read following (PostgreSQL: Documentation: 9.6: citext) and it does not hold true in my testing.. i.e citext is not performing better than lower.Am I missing something? help is appreciated. | | | | | | | | | | | PostgreSQL: Documentation: 9.6: citext | | | "citext