index on to_char(created, 'YYYY') doesn't work - Mailing list pgsql-sql

From Andreas Joseph Krogh
Subject index on to_char(created, 'YYYY') doesn't work
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Msg-id 200301151137.05697.andreak@officenet.no
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Responses Re: index on to_char(created, 'YYYY') doesn't work  (Andreas Joseph Krogh <andreak@officenet.no>)
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The following does not work:

create index session_u_idx on session (to_char(created, 'YYYY'));
ERROR:  parser: parse error at or near "'YYYY'" at character 57

Can I make a function to do this and index using the result of that funtion?
Do anyone have an example of such a function?

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