From: | Sam Barnett-Cormack <s(dot)barnett-cormack(at)lancaster(dot)ac(dot)uk> |
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To: | Gaetano Mendola <mendola(at)bigfoot(dot)com> |
Cc: | pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: cast not IMMUTABLE? |
Date: | 2004-05-07 00:33:58 |
Message-ID: | Pine.LNX.4.58.0405070132450.4035@localhost.localdomain |
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On Fri, 7 May 2004, Gaetano Mendola wrote:
> Hi all,
> I have a table with ~ 3e+6 rows on it.
>
> I do select on this table in this way:
>
>
> (1) select * from user_logs where login_time::date = now()::date;
>
>
> consider that login_time is a TIMESTAMPTZ with an index on it.
>
> If I use the select in this way:
>
> select * from user_logs where login_time = now();
>
> the the index is used.
>
> I'm trying to use define and index in order to help the query (1):
>
>
> test# create index idx on user_logs ( (login_time::date) );
> ERROR: functions in index expression must be marked IMMUTABLE
>
>
> why that cast is not considered IMMUTABLE ?
>
>
> How can I define an index for the query (1) ?
The way I have done such queries hs been to create functions, marked
immutable, that encapsulate the cast/non-immutable internal function, if
I know that it *is* really immutable, at least for my purposes, and use
a functional index.
--
Sam Barnett-Cormack
Software Developer | Student of Physics & Maths
UK Mirror Service (http://www.mirror.ac.uk) | Lancaster University
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