On Wed, 15 Jan 2003, Andreas Joseph Krogh wrote:
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> On Wednesday 15 January 2003 11:37, you wrote:
> > The following does not work:
> >
> > create index session_u_idx on session (to_char(created, 'YYYY'));
> > ERROR: parser: parse error at or near "'YYYY'" at character 57
> >
> > Can I make a function to do this and index using the result of that
> > funtion? Do anyone have an example of such a function?
>
> I tried the following function:
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> create function drus (timestamp) returns varchar AS'
> DECLARE
> str_created VARCHAR;
> created ALIAS FOR $1;
> BEGIN
> str_created:= to_char(created, ''YYYY'');
> RETURN str_created;
> END;
> ' LANGUAGE 'plpgsql';
add
WITH (iscachable)
>
> create index session_u_idx on session (drus(created));
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> But it failes with:
> ERROR: DefineIndex: index function must be marked isImmutable
>
> Now the question is how do I mark an index function isImmutable?
>
> - --
> Andreas Joseph Krogh <andreak@officenet.no>
> There will always be someone who agrees with you
> but is, inexplicably, a moron.
>
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