"Ben Tilly" <btilly@gmail.com> writes:
> That raises a very random thought. One of the nicer features of
> Oracle is the ability to have function-based indexes. So you could
> index, say, trim(lower(person.name)).
> Is there any prospect of postgres aquiring that functionality?
Uh, no, since it's already there; has been since Berkeley days ...
regards, tom lane