Re: Dynamic Partial Index

From: Jeff Davis <pgsql(at)j-davis(dot)com>
To: gustavo halperin <ggh(dot)develop(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Dynamic Partial Index
Date: 2006-08-17 18:18:07
Message-ID: 1155838687.26280.6.camel@dogma.v10.wvs
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On Thu, 2006-08-17 at 20:50 +0300, gustavo halperin wrote:
> I'm interesting in a partial index for a rows that aren't older than 6
> mounts, something like the sentence below:
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> /CREATE INDEX name_for_the_index ON table (the_column_of_type_date)
>
> WHERE ( the_column_of_type_date > (current_date - interval '6
> month')::date );/
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> But this is not posible, I receive the next error:
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> ERROR: functions in index predicate must be marked IMMUTABLE
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> So, what is the best solution for my problem?

Create an index on the table, and then periodically move records into a
separate archive table.

Regards,
Jeff Davis

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