Re: create index with substr function

Thank you all kindly response..... : )

I am currently using postgres 7.3, so any example or solution for version
after 7.4 if i want to create an index with substr function???

Thanks,
Ray


----- Original Message -----
From: "Stephan Szabo" <sszabo@megazone.bigpanda.com>
To: "Ray" <ray_siu@ge-ts.com.hk>
Cc: <pgsql-performance@postgresql.org>
Sent: Thursday, October 21, 2004 10:57 AM
Subject: Re: [PERFORM] create index with substr function


>
> On Thu, 21 Oct 2004, Ray wrote:
>
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I have a table in my postgres:
> > Table: doc
> >      Column     |            Type             | Modifiers
> >      ---------------+-----------------------------+-----------
> >  doc_id          | bigint                      | not null
> >  comp_grp_id | bigint                      | not null
> >  doc_type      | character varying(10)| not null
> >  doc_urn        | character varying(20)| not null
> >
> > I want to create an index on doc_urn column with using substr function
like this:
> > CREATE INDEX idx_doc_substr_doc_urn ON doc USING btree
(SUBSTR(doc_urn,10));
> >
> > but there is an error:
> >
> > ERROR:  parser: parse error at or near "10" at character 68
> >
> > what's wrong for this SQL? As I have found some reference on the
> > internet, I can't find anything wrong in this SQL.
>
> What version are you using? If you're using anything previous to 7.4 then
> the above definately won't work and the only work around I know of is to
> make another function which takes only the column argument and calls
> substr with the 10 constant.
>