Re: Regarding creation of gin index on column that has varchardatatype - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Andreas Kretschmer
Subject Re: Regarding creation of gin index on column that has varchardatatype
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Msg-id 0a7a532e-62f6-f903-c23a-f0b08d5cbab1@a-kretschmer.de
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In response to Regarding creation of gin index on column that has varchar datatype  (Durgamahesh Manne <maheshpostgres9@gmail.com>)
Responses Re: Regarding creation of gin index on column that has varchar datatype  (Durgamahesh Manne <maheshpostgres9@gmail.com>)
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Am 23.05.20 um 12:37 schrieb Durgamahesh Manne:
> Hi
>
> Respected to PGDG GLOBAL TEAM
>
> I am getting this error( ERROR:  data type character varying has no 
> default operator class for access method "gin"
> HINT:  You must specify an operator class for the index or define a 
> default operator class for the data type ) while i try to create gin 
> index on vch_message column of slp01 table (CREATE INDEX ON slp01 
> using gin(vch_message);)
>
> vch_message column has lot of this info like 
> {"requestBody":{"firstName":"SALVATORE","lastName":"NAPOLITANO","email":"remuda135@hotmail.com 
>
<mailto:remuda135@hotmail.com>","personID":"C48268","ClientSSN":"153520698","advisorPersonID":["10214","15270","15271","15272"]},"header":{"cache-control":"no-cache","content-type":"application/json","authorization":"Basic

> Y3JlYXRlVXNlcnM6ZGFrdm5laXdvbjRpOWZqb3duY3VpMzRmdW4zOTQ4aGY=","accept":"application/json, 
> text/json, text/x-json, text/javascript, application/xml, text/xml"
>
>


the string looks like JSON (with missing the correct end of the string). 
Please check. If you are storing JSON or JSONB - Values, you should use 
the proper datatype -JSON/JSONB. In this case you can create an 
GIN-Index on it.


Regards, Andreas
(and please don't email me private the same question)

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