Re: Partial index on date column

It's rumoured that Tom Lane once said:
> "Dave Page" <dpage(at)vale-housing(dot)co(dot)uk> writes:
>> CREATE INDEX pbx_log_today_idx ON pbx_log USING btree (pbx_time,
>> pbx_call_type, pbx_digits_source, pbx_digits_destination) WHERE
>> (pbx_date = '2003-03-06'::date);
>
>> I'm surprised by the following behaviour:
>
>> EXPLAIN SELECT * FROM pbx_log WHERE pbx_date = CURRENT_DATE;
>> [ no indexscan ]
>
>> Is this just an oddity because I don't have masses of data yet (4500
>> rows right now), or is this something the optimizer cannot handle?
>
> The optimizer does not think that "pbx_date = CURRENT_DATE" satisfies
> the partial index's WHERE condition. I don't see any really good way
> around this; to improve matters there'd need to be some concept of a
> plan that is only good for a limited time.

Oh, OK. Thanks Tom. I can obviously work around this in my PHP code, it
just struck me as odd. I assume then that the optimizer doesn't execute
the function, and that that's done later on? Would the same be true of
simple expressions such as 1 + 2?
Regards, Dave.