Re: Indexes on Expressions -- Parentheses - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Stephan Szabo
Subject Re: Indexes on Expressions -- Parentheses
Date
Msg-id 20040928222637.L43334@megazone.bigpanda.com
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In response to Indexes on Expressions -- Parentheses  (Thomas F.O'Connell <tfo@sitening.com>)
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sszabo@bigpanda.com

On Tue, 28 Sep 2004, Thomas F.O'Connell wrote:

>  From 11.5 in the docs:
>
> "The syntax of the CREATE INDEX command normally requires writing
> parentheses around index expressions, as shown in the second example.
> The parentheses may be omitted when the expression is just a function
> call, as in the first example."
>
> But when I try this:
>
> db=# CREATE INDEX expression_idx on some_table( extract( year from
> some_column ) );

Extract(year from some_column) is not really just a function call it's
an expression that looks similar to a function call because that's how SQL
defined it.


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