Re: Index on computed column - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Kris Jurka
Subject Re: Index on computed column
Date
Msg-id Pine.BSO.4.56.0404261344520.6373@leary.csoft.net
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In response to Index on computed column  (han.holl@pobox.com (Han Holl))
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On Tue, 20 Apr 2004, Han Holl wrote:

> palga=> create index nm_idx on main (rubriek(rapport, lseek, 'naamvrouw',0));
> ERROR:  parser: parse error at or near "'naamvrouw'" at character 54
> palga=>
>
> This is postgresql-7.3.4-3.rhl9.
>

You cannot create functional indexes with a constant in the 7.3 series.
This capability was only added in the 7.4 series.  You can work around
this problem by creating a wrapper function that calls the real function
with the constants and creating the index on the wrapper function.

Kris Jurka

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