On Nov 28, 2008, at 5:09 PM, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>> Speaking of other sorts of derived types: might they include
>> something just like enums, but sorting on the string values defined
>> for the enum rather than on the order in which the values were
>> defined in the enum? I'd use something like that all the time…
>
> order by foo_enum::text ...
Ah, I didn't realize that. I guess I'd have to index it on ::text,
too. And then, to use the index in WHERE clauses, I'd further have to
compare to ::text, eh?
Best,
David
