From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Edmund Bacon <ebacon@onesystem.com>
Cc: pgsql-sql <pgsql-sql@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: Functional index and string concatenation
Date: Mon, 08 Mar 2004 10:48:35 -0500
Message-ID: <4125.1078760915@sss.pgh.pa.us> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1078759686.10233.1.camel@elb_lx.onesystem.ca>
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<1078759686.10233.1.camel@elb_lx.onesystem.ca>
Edmund Bacon <ebacon@onesystem.com> writes:
> On Mon, 2004-03-08 at 08:19, Daniel Henrique Alves Lima wrote:
>> Is there a way to create a "functional index" over a string
>> concatenation of two columns ?
> test=# create index str_idx on strtable( textcat(str1, str2) );
As of 7.4 you can do it more directly:
create index str_idx on strtable( (str1 || str2) );
The disadvantage of the textcat() locution is that the planner will only
match it up to queries that also say textcat().
regards, tom lane
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