From: | Stephan Szabo <sszabo(at)megazone23(dot)bigpanda(dot)com> |
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To: | grant <grant(at)amadensor(dot)com> |
Cc: | <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: OLAP idea |
Date: | 2002-05-09 02:01:50 |
Message-ID: | 20020508185337.R6037-100000@megazone23.bigpanda.com |
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On Wed, 8 May 2002, grant wrote:
> I noticed that it is possible to build an index on a function to speed
> retrieval of data. The example in the docs was a create index on a name
> field forced to lower case. Would it be possible to make an index on an
> aggregate to speed the return of aggregate info, while keeping it up to
> date as the data changes? I know that index maintenance would be HUGE
> overhead, but on mostly static data that gets occasional updates, it could
> be good.
You can't currently do that with a functional index, but you should be
able to do that via triggers.
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