When grilled further on (Wed, 11 Jan 2006 10:33:03 -0500), Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> confessed:
> The planner understands about transitivity of equality, ie given a = b > and b = c it can infer a = c. It doesn't do any such thing for > inequalities though, nor does it deduce f(a) = f(b) for arbitrary > functions f. The addition Michael suggested requires much more > understanding of the properties of the functions in your query than > I think would be reasonable to put into the planner. > OK. I think reached a point that I need to re-organize how the data is stored, maybe ridding myself of the schema and switching entirely to views. At that point, I likely could rid myself of the function (unmunge_time) I'm using, and work with times and doy fields. Thanks, Rob -- 21:17:00 up 4 days, 13:43, 9 users, load average: 2.02, 2.18, 2.23 Linux 2.6.12-12-2 #4 SMP Tue Jan 3 19:56:19 MST 2006
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