Update GIN/GIST index note

With a little explain/analyze testing and both gin and gist indexes,
it looks like using the <-> operator in combination with a low limit
will use the GIST index and work well for basic search-string matching.
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Tom Russell 2019-02-05 21:15:48 +00:00
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@ -26,6 +26,6 @@ CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS search_locations (
-- - SELECT *, search_str <-> 'searchterm' AS dist FROM search_locations ORDER BY dist LIMIT 5;
-- - SELECT *, similarity(search_str, 'searchterm') AS dist FROM search_locations
-- WHERE t % 'searchterm' ORDER BY dist ASC, t LIMIT 5;
-- Docs suggest the second query will perform better than the third, when only a small number
-- of closest matches are desired, if combined with a GIST index (not GIN as below),
-- Docs suggest the '<->' query will perform better than the 'similarity', when only a small
-- number of closest matches are desired, if combined with a GIST index,
CREATE INDEX trgm_gist_idx_search_str ON search_locations USING GIST (search_str gist_trgm_ops);