Re: Abnormal performance difference between Postgres and MySQL

[Scott Marlowe <scott(dot)marlowe(at)gmail(dot)com>]

On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 4:33 PM, Guillaume Smet
<guillaume(dot)smet(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 12:27 AM, Scott Marlowe <scott(dot)marlowe(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>> If it's not C then string compares are going to probably need special
>> indexes to work the way you expect them. (varchar pattern ops).  Look
>> here for more information:
>>
>> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/static/indexes-opclass.html
>
> It's only relevant for pattern matching (eg LIKE or regexp). AFAICS,
> the OP only uses plain equals in his query.

True, I had a bit of a headache trying to read that unindented query.
(OP here's a hint, if you want people to read your queries / code,
indent it in some way that makes it fairly readable  Note that
varchar_pattern_ops indexes can't be used for straight equal compares
either.