How do you index for a LIKE '%pattern%' search without going full-text?

d/postgresqlAahmadAug 19, 2026

Leading-wildcard LIKE can't use a btree. trigram indexes help, but full-text search changes semantics. For a simple contains-filter, what's the pragmatic choice?

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