Re: Notes on testing Postgres 10b1

On 06/09/2017 07:54 PM, Greg Stark wrote:
> On 7 June 2017 at 01:01, Josh Berkus <josh(at)berkus(dot)org> wrote:
>> P3: apparently jsonb_to_tsvector with lang parameter isn't immutable?
>> This means that it can't be used for indexing:
>>
>> libdata=# create index bookdata_fts on bookdata using gin ((
>> to_tsvector('english',bookdata)));
>> ERROR: functions in index expression must be marked IMMUTABLE
>
> I don't have a machine handy to check on but isn't this a strange
> thing to do? Isn't there a GIN opclass on jsonb itself which would be
> the default if you didn't have that to_tsvector() call -- and which
> would also work properly with the jsonb operators?
>

The above is the documented way to create an FTS index on a JSONB field.

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