From: Stephan Szabo <sszabo@megazone.bigpanda.com>
To: Elielson Fontanezi <ElielsonF@prodam.sp.gov.br>
Cc: pgsql-general <pgsql-general@postgresql.org>
Cc: pgsql-sql <pgsql-sql@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: [SQL] ERROR: DefineIndex: index function must be
Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2003 12:24:56 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <20030725122348.L37941-100000@megazone.bigpanda.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030725121618.G37941-100000@megazone.bigpanda.com>
On Fri, 25 Jul 2003, Stephan Szabo wrote:
> On Fri, 25 Jul 2003, Elielson Fontanezi wrote:
>
> > What can I do in this case?
> > I could not found anything about iscachable.
>
>
> >
> > postgres$ cat in.sql
> > create index bt_proposta_f01 on proposta
> > using btree (func_cod_secretaria(nr_proponente));
> >
> > postgres$ psql -d escola -f in.sql
> > psql:in.sql:2: ERROR: DefineIndex: index function must be marked iscachable
>
> Check the create function reference page, I believe you'd need to add WITH
> (iscachable) to the end of the function creation.
>
> iscachable means that the function always returnes the same result when
> given the same arguments. It's a prereq to using the function in an
> index. If your function doesn't meet those requirements (for example if it
> does a query on a table) making an index on that function is a bad idea.
Almost forgot. In recent versions you'd specify that the function was
IMMUTABLE and I believe the error message would use such as well. What
version are you using (it might be worth considering an upgrade to 7.4
when it comes out)
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