On Thu, Oct 12, 2006 at 06:40:22PM -0700, Niederland wrote:
> I am using postgresql 8.1.4.
>
> Is there anyway to create an index equivalent to:
> CREATE INDEX i1 ON t1 USING btree (ts::Date);
>
> So that indexes are used for queries when the field is cast to a date.
I didn't try it, but you ought to be able to create a functional
index on the to_date() of the column. I don't know if that will
solve your cast issue, but you could rewrite the CAST into the
to_date form to get around that.
A
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