Re: expression index on date_trunc

From: "Daniel Verite" <daniel(at)manitou-mail(dot)org>
To: a(dot)redhead(at)openinternetsolutions(dot)com
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: expression index on date_trunc
Date: 2008-01-30 22:32:47
Message-ID: f6b42095-5fe2-4f6a-8c49-6bd49badb3ad@mm
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A Redhead wrote:

> CREATE INDEX request_day_idx ON moksha_sm_request
(date_trunc('day', request_received));
>
> I get the error message:
>
> ERROR: functions in index expression must be marked IMMUTABLE
[...]
> I'd be grateful if someone could point out what part of the statement
is not IMMUTABLE
> or how I could mark my create index statement as being immutable.

The retrieved value of request_received depends on your current
timezone, and so does the result of date_trunc, that would be why it's
not immutable.
If you don't need that behavior, you can shift your timestamptz to a
fixed timezone, both in your index and in your queries, as in:

CREATE INDEX request_day_idx ON moksha_sm_request
(date_trunc('day', request_received at time zone 'Europe/Paris'));

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