it’s strange that for using regexp expression in filter section, still need to create trigram index. it’s just filtering on already fetched data, not a search by some condition. when using it in filter section, it makes sense just to apply regular expression to a string value and filter out values …

Not to use trigrams when filtering by regexp

makitka (Nikita Zaletov) October 3, 2018, 11:52am 7

good news! since it’s filtering only, i don’t see any performance issues here - quite every database (elasticsearch, for example) has ability to post-filter returned data by regexp

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