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From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Is there anyway to create a functional index using to_date?
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In response to Re: Is there anyway to create a functional index using to_date?  (Bruno Wolff III <bruno@wolff.to>)
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Bruno Wolff III <bruno@wolff.to> writes:
> Chris Hoover <revoohc@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I can get it to create on if I create a special function that just
>> takes the field to be converted and returns the converted date.

> That is what you have to do in older versions of postgres. You don't have
> to do that in 8.0 (I am not sure about 7.4).

7.4 does it too.  7.3 is ... um ... old.

            regards, tom lane

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