On Tue, Aug 19, 2003 at 12:07:57PM -0500, Jeffrey Melloy wrote:
> Alexander Litvinov wrote:
>
> >if you need to handle large number of rows try to add columns with year
> >and month, write triggers for filling this columns, make indexes and
> >things should be fast.
>
> Is this the only way to do it? I was running into this problem, too.
> It would be nice if the function indexes could handle things like
> 'date_part('month', <columname>)
That's why they can in the upcoming 7.4... In the meantime I think you
can create an index using a function that has the constants inline, i.e.
a function date_part_month(), etc.
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Alvaro Herrera (<alvherre[a]dcc.uchile.cl>)
"Es filosofo el que disfruta con los enigmas" (G. Coli)
