Re: [GENERAL] Improving the timing of a query

[Martijn van Oosterhout]

On Fri, Dec 07, 2007 at 12:07:52PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> other DB's do FTS when there is a function involved in the predicate (WHERE
> clause)
> so a possible workaround would be to look at all function calls in your
> predicate (WHERE clause) and
> populate a new column with the results of the function(column)
> and then create and populate an index which will reference the
> function(column)

You don't need to create a column, yu can create functional indexes in
postgres:

CREATE INDEX foo ON bar ((myfunction(column)));

And it can be used anytime your query says: WHERE myfunction(column) = X

Have a nice day,
-- 
Martijn van Oosterhout   <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>   http://svana.org/kleptog/
> Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution 
> inevitable.
>  -- John F Kennedy

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