Because I need to get all rows where datetime is greater than (for example)
'2012-10-10 00:00:00' but ignoring timezone, so basically I need to truncate
timezone
This can be done by converting to timestamp without timezone.
-----Mensaje original-----
De: Tom Lane [mailto:tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us]
Enviado el: viernes, 12 de octubre de 2012 05:39 p.m.
Para: Anibal David Acosta
CC: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Asunto: Re: [PERFORM] Do cast affects index usage?
"Anibal David Acosta" <aa@devshock.com> writes:
> I have a table with a column of type timestamp with time zone, this
> column has an index
> If I do a select like this
> select * from mytable where cast(my_date as timestamp without time
> zone) >
> '2012-10-12 20:00:00'
> this query will use the index over the my_date column?
No. The cast seems rather pointless though ...
regards, tom lane
