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Date: Sat, 18 May 2019 17:53:35 -0500
From: Larry Rosenman <ler@lerctr.org>
To: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: create index on a jsonb timestamp field?
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I'm playing with DNSTAP (dnstap.info) data and loading it into a 
database for analysis.

when I try to create an index on the query_time field of the json 
structure I get:

ler=# select id,data->'message'->>'query_time' from dns_query limit 2;
  id |          ?column?
----+-----------------------------
   2 | 2019-05-13T01:35:59.822984Z
   3 | 2019-05-13T01:35:59.829801Z
(2 rows)

ler=# select id,(data->'message'->>'query_time')::timestamptz  from 
dns_query limit 2;
  id |          timestamptz
----+-------------------------------
   2 | 2019-05-12 20:35:59.822984-05
   3 | 2019-05-12 20:35:59.829801-05
(2 rows)

ler=#

ler=# create index dns_query_time_idx on dns_query(((data -> 'message' 
->> 'query_time')::text::timestamptz));
ERROR:  functions in index expression must be marked IMMUTABLE

Is there any easy way to do this?  Or, what would the experts recommend 
here?


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