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From: Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>
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To: Bruno Wolff III <bruno@wolff.to>, pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: unique index on function and column
Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2002 13:09:25 -0700
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Bruno,

> Is there a simple way to do something like the following:
> create unique index inst_u_app on inst (lower(host), psport);
>=20
> It looks like you can have an index on several columns, but not
> several functions.

So?  Create two seperate indexes.

Multi-column indexes are almost always less useful that you'd expected,=20
anyway.

--=20
-Josh Berkus