On Mon, 25 Oct 1999, Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > hi... > my experience has been that this: > > select date_time_field::date from table_name; > > is much faster than: > > select date_trunc('day',date) from table_name; > Yes, date_trunc() is comlicated routine, this func. must internal parse and search your 'day' - it is slowly. (.. instead of datetime_date() which make date from full DateTime only.) Zakkr ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://home.zf.jcu.cz/~zakkr/ Kim Project: http://home.zf.jcu.cz/~zakkr/kim/ (process manager) FTP: ftp://ftp2.zf.jcu.cz/users/zakkr/ (C/ncurses/PgSQL) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ...and cathedral dilapidate ************