Re: Question about a query plan - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Thomas O'Connell
Subject Re: Question about a query plan
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In response to Question about a query plan  (Bill Moseley <moseley@hank.org>)
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Re: Question about a query plan
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On Sep 16, 2005, at 9:18 AM, Bill Moseley wrote:

> First question is why the planner is not using an index scan when I
> use "now()" or CURRENT_TIMESTAMP?

It also used to be the case (pre-8.0; I couldn't find in the release
notes whether this was an 8.0 or 8.1 fix) that now() and
CURRENT_TIMESTAMP were not indexable, I think because of mutability.

For older versions of postgres, it's recommended that you determine
the time in the client and use constant data in your query.

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