Re: Can this query be optimized?

From: "Ross J(dot) Reedstrom" <reedstrm(at)rice(dot)edu>
To: Claus Heiko Niesen <cniesen(at)gmx(dot)net>
Cc: Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Can this query be optimized?
Date: 2001-11-08 20:00:52
Message-ID: 20011108140051.B11680@rice.edu
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On Thu, Nov 08, 2001 at 01:19:25PM -0600, Claus Heiko Niesen wrote:
> At 10:49 AM 11/08/2001, Josh wrote:
>
> I just tried to build an index to see what the explain path would do but I
> get an error on the word extract:
>
> # create index week_pics_month_key on week_pics (extract(year from
> time_stamp), extract(month from time_stamp));
> ERROR: parser: parse error at or near "extract"

It's erroring on the second use of extract(). You can have multicolumn
indices, or you can have functional indices. You can't have a
multifunctional index (right now. I have'nt looked at the code to
see why.)

Ross

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