Re: First day of month, last day of month

From: "Scott Marlowe" <scott(dot)marlowe(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: "Fernando Hevia" <fhevia(at)ip-tel(dot)com(dot)ar>
Cc: pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: First day of month, last day of month
Date: 2008-04-24 15:16:01
Message-ID: dcc563d10804240816v58322af0jaeb6d3a0b58967f2@mail.gmail.com
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On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 9:10 AM, Fernando Hevia <fhevia(at)ip-tel(dot)com(dot)ar> wrote:
> > De: pgsql-sql-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org
> > [mailto:pgsql-sql-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org] En nombre de Scott Marlowe
>
> >
> > Then you can just use date_trunc on the values in the
> > database. Plus if you're using timestamp WITHOUT timezone,
> > you can index on it.
> >
>
> Did not understand this. Are you saying timestamps WITH timezone are NOT
> indexable or you mean that you cant build a partial index on a
> timestamp-with-time-zone returning function?

Correct, timestamptz or timestamp with timezone (timestamptz is the
shorter alias) are not indexable because functions in an index must be
immutable, and date_trunc on a timestamptz is not.

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