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LIKE operator on indexed JSON attribute does not use index
Posted by: Ken Tran
Date: February 25, 2021 11:53PM

Suppose we have this table with an index on a virtual generated column as JSON attribute index pattern

```
CREATE TABLE applications (
id BINARY(16) PRIMARY KEY,
data JSON NOT NULL,
) ENGINE=InnoDB;
CREATE INDEX idx ON applications ((CAST(data->>"$.name" AS CHAR(10))));
```

For queries with `=` operator to compare the text field of data, the index is hit and works as expected

```
mysql> EXPLAIN SELECT * FROM applications FORCE INDEX (idx) WHERE CAST(data->>'$.name' AS CHAR(10)) = 'app-1';
+----+-------------+--------------+------------+------+---------------+------+---------+-------+------+----------+-------+
| id | select_type | table | partitions | type | possible_keys | key | key_len | ref | rows | filtered | Extra |
+----+-------------+--------------+------------+------+---------------+------+---------+-------+------+----------+-------+
| 1 | SIMPLE | applications | NULL | ref | idx | idx | 13 | const | 1 | 100.00 | NULL |
+----+-------------+--------------+------------+------+---------------+------+---------+-------+------+----------+-------+
1 row in set, 1 warning (0.00 sec)
```

But for queries with `LIKE` operator, even in case search without wildcard, the indexes is not hit

```
mysql> EXPLAIN SELECT * FROM applications FORCE INDEX (idx) WHERE CAST(data->>'$.name' AS CHAR(10)) LIKE 'app-1';
+----+-------------+--------------+------------+------+---------------+------+---------+------+------+----------+-------------+
| id | select_type | table | partitions | type | possible_keys | key | key_len | ref | rows | filtered | Extra |
+----+-------------+--------------+------------+------+---------------+------+---------+------+------+----------+-------------+
| 1 | SIMPLE | applications | NULL | ALL | NULL | NULL | NULL | NULL | 6 | 100.00 | Using where |
+----+-------------+--------------+------------+------+---------------+------+---------+------+------+----------+-------------+
1 row in set, 1 warning (0.00 sec)
mysql> EXPLAIN SELECT * FROM applications FORCE INDEX (idx) WHERE CAST(data->>'$.name' AS CHAR(10)) LIKE 'app-%';
+----+-------------+--------------+------------+------+---------------+------+---------+------+------+----------+-------------+
| id | select_type | table | partitions | type | possible_keys | key | key_len | ref | rows | filtered | Extra |
+----+-------------+--------------+------------+------+---------------+------+---------+------+------+----------+-------------+
| 1 | SIMPLE | applications | NULL | ALL | NULL | NULL | NULL | NULL | 6 | 100.00 | Using where |
+----+-------------+--------------+------------+------+---------------+------+---------+------+------+----------+-------------+
1 row in set, 1 warning (0.00 sec)
```

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