Re: Functional index definition

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От Josué Maldonado
Тема Re: Functional index definition
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Msg-id 3FB104C7.4000507@lamundial.hn
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Ответ на Re: Functional index definition  (Stephan Szabo <sszabo@megazone.bigpanda.com>)
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Stephan Szabo wrote:
Thanks Stephan.

I forgot to say I'm using 7.3.4, your solutions worked fine.


> On Tue, 11 Nov 2003, [ISO-8859-1] Josué Maldonado wrote:
>
>
>>Hello list,
>>
>>Is there a way to create indexes using functions like these:
>>substring(prod_no,8,4)
>>to_char(fkardex,'YYYYMM')
>>substr(facnum,1,2)
>>
>>Help says is not possible but I would like to know if someone know an
>>undocumented/tricky way to get that done.
>
>
> Not directly in 7.3 and earlier.  You have to make a function that wraps
> the function you want to call with static arguments like:
>
> create function substring_8_4(text) returns text as
>  'select substring($1, 8, 4);' language 'sql' immutable;
>
> In 7.4, the indexes have been approved to allow indexes on expressions
> which allow the above (with an extra set of parens in the definition).
>
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--
Josué Maldonado.



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