Re: tsearch: immutable functions? - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Teodor Sigaev
Subject Re: tsearch: immutable functions?
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Msg-id 3EF83BCE.4070907@sigaev.ru
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In response to tsearch: immutable functions?  (Jochem van Dieten <jochemd@oli.tudelft.nl>)
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Jochem van Dieten wrote:
> I was wondering if there is any reason not to define the functions from
> tsearch as immutable. What I am trying to achieve is that I don't have
> to create a separate field to index as is explained in the manual, but
> just create a functional gist index.
>
> Instead of:
> alter table titles add titleidx txtidx;
> update titles set titleidx=txt2txtidx(title);
> create index t_idx on titles using gist(titleidx);
>
> just:
> create index t_idx on titles using gist(txt2txtidx(title));
>
> But creating a functional index requires an immutable function.
>
> Jochem
>
>
>
>
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Teodor Sigaev                                  E-mail: teodor@sigaev.ru


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