Re: expression index on date_trunc

    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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